By: Landgraf H.B. No. 3669
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the operations of the Ector County Hospital District.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 1024.051(a) and (d), Special District
Local Laws Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The district is governed by a board of seven directors
in single-member districts.
(d) An election shall be held on the uniform election date
in May of each odd-numbered [even-numbered] year to elect the
appropriate number of directors.
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 1024, Special District
Local Laws Code, is amended by adding Section 1024.0545 to read as
follows:
Sec. 1024.0545. GROUNDS FOR REMOVAL. (a) It is a ground for
removal from the board that a director is absent from more than half
of the regularly scheduled board meetings that the director is
eligible to attend in any 12-month period without an excuse
approved by a majority vote of the board.
(b) The validity of an action of the board is not affected by
the fact that the action is taken when a ground for removal of a
director exists.
(c) A director may be removed for a ground provided by this
section using the procedures provided by Subchapter B, Chapter 87,
Local Government Code, for removing a county official.
SECTION 3. (a) The legislature validates and confirms all
governmental acts and proceedings of the board of directors of the
Ector County Hospital District that were taken before the effective
date of this Act.
(b) This section does not apply to any matter that on the
effective date of this Act:
(1) is involved in litigation if the litigation
ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final court
judgment; or
(2) has been held invalid by a final court judgment.
SECTION 4. Section 1024.051(b), Special District Local Laws
Code, is repealed.
SECTION 5. 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, 2017.