By: White (Senate Sponsor - Ogden) H.B. No. 460
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 2011;
April 20, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
Intergovernmental Relations; May 6, 2011, reported favorably by
the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 6, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the board of directors of the Trinity Memorial Hospital
District.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 5(i), Chapter 265, Acts of the 67th
Legislature, Regular Session, 1981, is amended to read as follows:
(i) The board shall organize by electing one of its number
as president and one of its number as vice-president. A secretary,
who need not be a director, also shall be elected. Officers shall
be elected for a term of one year, and a vacancy shall be filled for
the unexpired term by the board. Any five [four] members of the
board constitute a quorum, and a concurrence of five [four] is
sufficient in all matters pertaining to the business of the
district. All members of the board and officers serve without
compensation but may be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred in
the performance of their official duties if those expenses are
approved by the board and reported in the minute book of the
district or other records of the district.
SECTION 2. 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, 2011.
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