SRC-JFA H.B. 3256 75(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   H.B. 3256
By: Oakley (Whitmire)
Criminal Justice
5-10-97
Engrossed


DIGEST 

During the 73rd Legislature, Representative Bill Blackwood passed a bill
relocating and consolidating the Law Enforcement Management Institute of
Texas 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.  If the school was consolidated into one
campus with facilities to provide the essential management training for
police officers, training may be better facilitated.  This bill would
require the training of police management personnel by the joint training
program between Sam Houston State Houston University, Texas A&M
University, and Texas Women's University to be administered on the campus
of Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.  

PURPOSE

As proposed, H.B. 3256 requires the training of police management
personnel by the joint training program between Sam Houston State
University, Texas A&M University, and Texas Woman's University to be
administered on the campus of Sam Houston State University in Huntsville,
Texas.  

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 96.64(a), Education Code, to require all
training of police management personnel by the Bill Blackwood Law
Enforcement Management Institute of Texas to be administered on the campus
of Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.   

SECTION 2. Effective date: September 1, 1997.

SECTION 3. Emergency clause.