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1	2		By: Bell of Kaufman H.B. No. 467
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6	5		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
7	6		AN ACT
8	7		relating to the procedure for the dissolution of the Cedar Creek
9	8		Hospital District and the disposition of district money.
10	9		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	10		SECTION 1. Section 22, Chapter 22, Acts of the 63rd
12	11		Legislature, Regular Session, 1973, is amended to read as follows:
13	12		Sec. 22. Except as provided by Sections [Section] 21A(c)
14	13		and 21C(c), any election held under this Act shall be in accordance
15	14		with the Texas Election Code as it presently exists, and is
16	15		hereafter amended and any final court decision or decisions
17	16		construing such election code.
18	17		SECTION 2. Chapter 22, Acts of the 63rd Legislature,
19	18		Regular Session, 1973, is amended by adding Section 21C to read as
20	19		follows:
21	20		Sec. 21C. (a) The district may be dissolved as provided by
22	21		this section only if:
23	22		(1) the district is not providing or paying for the
24	23		provision of medical or hospital care;
25	24		(2) all positions on the board of directors of the
26	25		district are vacant;
27	26		(3) the district has no outstanding indebtedness; and
28	27		(4) the only remaining asset of the district is money.
29	28		(b) The county judges of Kaufman, Van Zandt, and Henderson
30	29		Counties may jointly agree to order an election on the question of
31	30		dissolving the district and using any remaining district money to
32	31		establish and administer the scholarship described by Subsection
33	32		(g) of this section.
34	33		(c) Section 41.001(a), Election Code, does not apply to an
35	34		election held under this section.
36	35		(d) The ballot for the election shall be printed to permit
37	36		voting for or against the proposition: "The dissolution of the
38	37		Cedar Creek Hospital District and the use of district money to
39	38		establish and administer the Andrew Gibbs Memorial Nursing
40	39		Scholarship."
41	40		(e) If a majority of the votes cast in the election do not
42	41		favor the proposition, the county judges of Kaufman, Van Zandt, and
43	42		Henderson Counties may not take any additional action under this
44	43		section.
45	44		(f) If a majority of the votes cast in the election favor the
46	45		proposition:
47	46		(1) the county judges of Kaufman, Van Zandt, and
48	47		Henderson Counties shall:
49	48		(A) find that the district is dissolved; and
50	49		(B) transfer the district money in equal shares
51	50		to Kaufman, Van Zandt, and Henderson Counties for the purpose of
52	51		establishing and administering the Andrew Gibbs Memorial Nursing
53	52		Scholarship in accordance with Subsection (g) of this section; and
54	53		(2) not later than the 10th day after the date the
55	54		commissioners courts of Kaufman, Van Zandt, and Henderson Counties
56	55		determine that the requirements of Subdivision (1) of this
57	56		subsection have been met, the commissioners courts of the counties
58	57		shall enter orders dissolving the district.
59	58		(g) The county judges of Kaufman, Van Zandt, and Henderson
60	59		Counties shall use the money transferred under Subsection (f) of
61	60		this section to jointly establish and administer the Andrew Gibbs
62	61		Memorial Nursing Scholarship. The counties shall jointly establish
63	62		an oversight committee to administer the scholarship. The
64	63		oversight committee may establish eligibility criteria and
65	64		procedures for the application and selection process, provided that
66	65		the eligibility criteria must require an individual receiving a
67	66		scholarship to:
68	67		(1) reside in the boundaries of the district, as those
69	68		boundaries existed on the date of the election described by
70	69		Subsection (b) of this section, at the time the individual is
71	70		accepted for admission to a nursing education program at an
72	71		institution of higher education in this state; and
73	72		(2) be currently enrolled in, or have been accepted
74	73		for admission to, a nursing education program described by
75	74		Subdivision (1) of this subsection.
76		-	(h) The county judges and the oversight committee
77		-	established under Subsection (g) may collaborate with an
78		-	institution of higher education, as defined by Section 61.003,
79		-	Education Code, located in the boundaries of the district as
80		-	described by Subsection (g) for the purposes of establishing and
81		-	administering the scholarship.
82	75		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
83	76		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
84	77		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
85	78		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
86	79		Act takes effect September 1, 2025.