(a) Each year, the commission of a district shall hold a public hearing on the amounts of any mandatory payments that the commission intends to require during the year and how the revenue derived from those payments is to be spent.
(b) Not later than the fifth day before the date of the hearing, the commission shall publish at least once notice of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the district is located.

(c) A representative of a paying hospital is entitled to appear at the time and place designated in the public notice and to be heard regarding any matter related to the mandatory payments required by the district under this chapter.