Public Hospital Boards of Trustees

The bill allows a board of county commissioners to appoint an individual who is already an elected or appointed state, county, or city official to a public hospital board of trustees (hospital board).

In current law, a hospital board must organize and operate on the second Tuesday of each January. The bill changes that requirement to mandate that a hospital board organize and operate on an annual basis. The bill eliminates a requirement that one of the trustees of a hospital board must visit and examine the hospital at least twice each month. The bill also changes the deadline by which a hospital board must certify to a board of county commissioners the amount necessary to maintain and improve the hospital for the ensuing year from October 1 to December 1.

(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)

(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)