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      By Oakley                                       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.  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, 1997.

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.