By Oakley H.B. No. 2617
74R7628 MLR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the operation and management of the Bill Blackwood Law
1-3 Enforcement Management Institute of Texas and to membership on that
1-4 institute's advisory board.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Sections 96.64(b), (c), and (h), Education Code,
1-7 are amended to read as follows:
1-8 (b) The Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute
1-9 of Texas is created for the training of police management
1-10 personnel. The headquarters of the institute are at Sam Houston
1-11 State University. The institute is under the supervision and
1-12 direction of the president of Sam Houston State University <and
1-13 shall be operated and managed as a joint program between Sam
1-14 Houston State University, Texas A&M University, and Texas Woman's
1-15 University>.
1-16 (c) The institute's advisory board is composed of seven
1-17 <nine> members appointed as follows:
1-18 (1) one by the governor, who must be a licensed peace
1-19 officer with supervisory experience;
1-20 (2) one by the lieutenant governor, who must be a
1-21 licensed peace officer with supervisory experience;
1-22 (3) one by the speaker of the house of
1-23 representatives, who must be a licensed peace officer with
1-24 supervisory experience;
2-1 (4) one by the president of Sam Houston State
2-2 University; and
2-3 (5) <one by the president of Texas A&M University;>
2-4 <(6) one by the president of Texas Woman's University;
2-5 and>
2-6 <(7)> three by the Commission on Law Enforcement
2-7 Officer Standards and Education, two of whom must be licensed,
2-8 nonsupervisory peace officers.
2-9 (h) The board shall elect a chairman, a vice-chairman, and a
2-10 secretary from the appointed members at its first meeting after new
2-11 appointments to fill regular terms. The board shall meet at least
2-12 once in each calendar quarter and may meet at other times as
2-13 necessary to perform the duties of the board. Four <Five> of the
2-14 appointed members constitute a quorum.
2-15 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-16 (b) The positions of the members of the advisory board of
2-17 the Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas
2-18 that are filled by appointment by the presidents of Texas A&M
2-19 University and Texas Woman's University are abolished on September
2-20 1, 1995.
2-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.