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         By Oakley                                             H.B. No. 3256

         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3256:

         By Oakley                                         C.S.H.B. No. 3256

                                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.  Section 96.64(a), Education Code, is amended to

 1-7     read as follows:

 1-8           (a)  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.  All training of police management personnel by this

1-16     joint program shall be administered on the campus of Sam Houston

1-17     State University in Huntsville, Texas.

1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.