75R11358 E 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.