Bill Text: TX SB1461 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the appointment and terms of the board of hospital managers of the Dallas County Hospital District.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2015-06-18 - Effective immediately [SB1461 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1461-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1461 | ||
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| relating to the appointment and terms of the board of hospital | ||
| managers of the Dallas County Hospital District. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 281, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 281.0211 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 281.0211. APPOINTMENT OF DALLAS COUNTY HOSPITAL | ||
| DISTRICT BOARD; MEMBERS' TERMS. (a) The Dallas County Hospital | ||
| District is governed by a board composed of 11 members, appointed as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (1) the Dallas County Commissioners Court shall | ||
| appoint one member; | ||
| (2) each commissioner on the Dallas County | ||
| Commissioners Court shall appoint two members; and | ||
| (3) the county judge of Dallas County shall appoint | ||
| two members. | ||
| (b) Board members appointed under this section serve | ||
| staggered three-year terms, with as near as possible to one-third | ||
| of the members' terms expiring each year. | ||
| (c) On or after September 1, 2022, the Dallas County | ||
| Commissioners Court shall appoint members to the board in | ||
| accordance with Sections 281.021(a) and 281.022(a). | ||
| (d) Subsection (c) does not affect the entitlement of a | ||
| member of the board of the Dallas County Hospital District | ||
| appointed to the board under this section before September 1, 2022, | ||
| to continue to carry out the member's functions for the remainder of | ||
| the member's term. | ||
| (e) On the expiration of the terms of the board members | ||
| described by Subsection (d), the Dallas County Commissioners Court | ||
| shall take appropriate action to ensure that, as soon as possible, | ||
| the board of the Dallas County Hospital District complies with the | ||
| requirements of Sections 281.021(a) and 281.022(a). | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) The members of the board of hospital | ||
| managers of the Dallas County Hospital District serving on the | ||
| effective date of this Act may draw lots or use another method to | ||
| determine the members, the number of whom must be as near as | ||
| possible to one-third of the total number of members, who shall | ||
| serve terms that expire in 2018, the members, the number of whom | ||
| must be as near as possible to one-third of the total number of | ||
| members, who shall serve terms that expire in 2017, and the members, | ||
| the number of whom must be as near as possible to one-third of the | ||
| total number of members, who shall serve terms that expire in 2016. | ||
| The members of the board appointed to succeed the members serving on | ||
| the effective date of this Act shall serve three-year terms. | ||
| (b) At the time the terms of the board of hospital managers | ||
| of the Dallas County Hospital District are determined under | ||
| Subsection (a) of this section, the Dallas County Commissioners | ||
| Court shall establish the specific date on which the terms of | ||
| members of the board of hospital managers shall expire each year. | ||
| (c) The additional members of the board of hospital managers | ||
| of the Dallas County Hospital District required by Section | ||
| 281.0211, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, must be | ||
| appointed not later than January 1, 2016. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1461 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that | ||
| the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 28, 2015, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1461 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 135, | ||
| Nays 5, two present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
