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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 670
BY SENATOR THOMPSON
LOCAL AGENCIES. Provides relative to the membership of certain hospital service
districts. (8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 46:1053(FF), relative to certain hospital service districts; to provide for2
appointments of board members; to provide for qualification of members; and to provide for3
related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 46:1053(FF) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
ยง1053. Commission; qualification of members; appointment; vacancies;7
compensation; removal of commissioners; certain powers8
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FF.(1) In any parish with a population in excess of twelve thousand but10
not more than thirteen thousand five hundred based on the latest federal11
decennial census, a hospital service district shall be governed by a board of12
commissioners appointed by the governing authority of the parish as follows:13
(a) Two members shall be employed in the banking industry and reside14
in the district.15
(b) One member shall be a practicing physician who resides in the16
district.17 SB NO. 670
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(c) One member shall be a practicing attorney who resides in the district.1
(d) One member shall be an educator who resides in the district.2
(2) Any vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the governing3
authority of the parish. Nothing in this Subsection shall impair or affect the4
operation of the hospital service district.5
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Michael Bell.
DIGEST
Thompson (SB 670)
Present law provides that any hospital service district formed or created by law shall be
governed by a board of five commissioners, who shall be qualified voters and residents of
the district.
Proposed law retains present law and provides that in any parish with a population in excess
of 12,000 but not more than 13,500 based on the latest federal decennial census, a hospital
service district shall be governed by a board of commissioners appointed by the governing
authority of the parish as follows:
(1)Two members shall be employed in the banking industry and reside in the district.
(2)One member shall be a practicing physician who resides in the district.
(3)One member shall be a practicing attorney who resides in the district.
(4)One member shall be an educator who resides in the district.
Proposed law further provides that any vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the
governing authority of the parish.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Adds R.S. 46:1053(FF))