By: Burrows H.B. No. 1583
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the Terry Memorial Hospital District.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1105.051(a), Special District Local Laws
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) The district is governed by a board of seven directors
elected through a cumulative election system with the candidates
receiving the highest number of votes being declared the winners of
the election [from the district at large].
(1) Each eligible voter will be allowed the number of
votes equal to the number of director positions being voted on at
the election.
(2) The election will be conducted at large, with all
candidates running in a common field without any place
designations.
(3) Each eligible voter will be allowed to cast his or
her votes in any manner according to the voter's preference. A
voter may cast each of his or her votes for different candidates,
cast all of his or her votes for one candidate, or portion his or her
votes in any other manner among the candidates as long as the total
number of votes cast by each eligible voter does not exceed four.
SECTION 2. Section 1105.052, Special District Local Laws
Code, is revised to read as follows:
Sec. 1105.052. NOTICE OF ELECTION. Notice [At least 10 days
before the date of a directors' election, notice] of the election
must be published one time in a newspaper of general circulation in
Terry County in accordance with Section 4.003, Election Code.
SECTION 3. Section 1105.053, Special District Local Laws
Code, is revised to read as follows:
Sec. 1105.053. BALLOT APPLICATION [PETITION]. A person who
wants to have the person 's name printed on the ballot as a
candidate for director must file an application with the board
secretary in accordance with Chapter 144, [a petition requesting
that action. The petition must be:
(1) signed by not fewer than 10 registered voters; and
(2) filed by the deadline imposed by Section 144.005,]
Election Code.
SECTION 4. 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, 2023.