07 LC 28
3297
House
Bill 151
By:
Representative Lunsford of the
110th
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Code Section 31-7-72 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to the creation of hospital authority in each county and municipality, so as to
provide that the General Assembly by local Act may change the manner of filling
vacancies on certain hospital authorities; to provide for related matters; to
provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other
purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Code
Section 31-7-72 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the
creation of hospital authority in each county and municipality, is amended by
revising subsection (b) as follows:
"(b)
Appointments
Except as
otherwise provided by local Act of the General Assembly,
appointments to fill vacancies on the
board of any hospital authority activated on or after March 15, 1964, for either
an unexpired or full term as fixed in the original resolution or ordinance
creating the authority, shall be made as follows:
(1)
The governing body of the area of operation shall submit a list of three
eligible persons to the board of the hospital authority;
(2)
The board at its next regular meeting shall either select one of the three
persons named in such list or decline to select any of the persons named in the
list. If the board declines to select any of the persons named on the list, it
shall so notify the governing body; and
(3)
Upon receipt of notification that the board has declined to select any of the
persons named in the governing body´s list, the governing body shall submit
a second list of three eligible persons, no one of whom was named on the first
list, to the board of the hospital authority. The board at its next regular
meeting after receipt of the second list shall select one of the three persons
named in the second list."
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor or upon its
becoming law without such approval.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.