BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 2617 By: Oakley 04-18-95 Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND During the 73rd legislative session, Representative Bill Blackwood introduced a bill relocating and consolidating the Law Enforcement Management Institute to Sam Houston State University. The Institute, later named after Representative Bill Blackwood, provides management training for police officers who would otherwise need to attend the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia, for such training. To better facilitate the training, the school must be consolidated into one campus with facilities to provide the essential management training for police officers. PURPOSE As proposed, H.B. 2617 consolidates management of the Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Institute of Texas to Sam Houston State University. The bill also reduces the number of members on the Institute's advisory board from nine to seven members. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency or institution. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 96.64 (b), (c), and (h), of the Education Code. Subsection (b) is amended by deleting the management of the Institute by a joint program operated and managed by Sam Houston State University, Texas Woman's University, and Texas A & M University. Subsection (c) is amended to reduce the number of advisory board members from nine to seven by deleting the advisory board appointment of Texas Woman's University and Texas A & M University. Subsection (h) is amended to change the number of what constitutes a quorum from five members to four. SECTION 2. Effective date: September 1, 1995. The positions of the members of the advisory board that are filled by appointments by the presidents of Texas A & M University and Texas Woman's University are abolished on September 1, 1995. SECTION 3. Emergency clause. SUMMARY OF COMMITTEE ACTION H.B. 2617 was considered by the Committee on Public Safety in a public hearing on March 11, 1995. The bill was reported favorably without amendment, with the recommendation that it do pass and be printed, by a record vote of 8 ayes, 0 nays, 0 pnv, 1 absent.