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2025 · Regular session · House bill
HB2014
HB2014 establishes a seven-member elected board with staggered four-year terms for the Somervell County Hospital District.
Official caption: Relating to the election of the board of directors of the Somervell County Hospital District.
Official report lists House author(s): Kerwin. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.
Bill explanation published · Version and amendment review scope is stated below · Individual amendment records may not be separately annotated.
Bill highlights
Selected points from the published explanation. Follow each point to its source-linked context; conditions and limits may matter.
- HB2014 establishes a seven-member elected board with staggered four-year terms for the Somervell County Hospital District.
- The law provides a transition rather than immediately replacing every director.
- The law took effect September 1, 2025.
What does it do?
HB2014 establishes a seven-member elected board with staggered four-year terms for the Somervell County Hospital District. Elections must take place on the uniform election date in May in the appropriate years. This is a district-specific governance law, not a statewide change to hospital boards. Final law, Section 1.
The law provides a transition rather than immediately replacing every director. A director serving the day before the law took effect continues until that director’s term expires and a successor qualifies. Directors elected in May 2026 are to draw lots: two receive two-year terms and three receive three-year terms. Directors elected in May 2027 receive four-year terms. Successors to those transition directors receive four-year terms. Final law, Section 2.
The law took effect September 1, 2025. It does not itself change a hospital service, impose a new tax or appropriate operating funds. The May 2026 provisions above describe the statutory transition; this briefing does not verify election results or which directors drew particular terms. Final law, Sections 1–3.
What changed along the way?
The introduced bill already proposed four-year terms and the May 2026–2027 transition. The House committee substitute expressly specified seven elected directors and staggered terms, added protection for sitting directors until their terms expire and successors qualify, and reorganized definitions and election sections. It also replaced the introduced conditional immediate-effective-date clause with a fixed September 1, 2025 date. Introduced text; House substitute.
The House-passed, Senate committee and enrolled texts retained the substitute’s operative provisions. The official amendment index reports no amendments; that does not mean there was no committee-substitute change. The final votes were 109–14 in the House, with two members present and not voting, and 31–0 in the Senate. All versions; amendment index; history.
For the full amendment record, open the official amendment index.
Official bill versions
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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?
The district gains a defined staggered-term structure intended to preserve continuity while seats turn over. Voters retain elected directors but have four-year terms for successors after the transition; candidates and election administrators must follow the special initial term assignments. The law does not promise measurable improvements to care or quantify election savings.
The May 21, 2025 fiscal note anticipates no state fiscal impact and no significant local-government fiscal impact. It provides no separate two-year or five-year dollar forecast.
Official sources
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Catalog report retrieved 2026-10-25. Check the official record for corrections or later changes.
