Sec. 2. 3 MRSA §168-A, sub-§4, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 439, Pt. PPPP, §1 and affected by §4, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:

4.__Chairs.__There is a legislative chair and a youth chair of the council.__The legislative chair alternates every 2 years between the first-appointed member of the House of Representatives and the first-appointed member of the Senate, beginning in 2003 with the first-appointed member of the House of Representatives serving as the legislative chair for the 121st Legislature.__The members shall elect one of their youth members to serve as the youth chair for a term of one year.

Sec. 3. Coordinating terms of current youth members of Legislative Youth Advisory Council. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 3, section 168-A, the terms of the appointed youth members of the Legislative Youth Advisory Council expire on the following dates:

1. Members whose terms expire on August 30, 2003 are Trevor Bragdon, Paul Brunetti, Elizabeth Comeau, David Heidrich, Barrett Littlefield, Melissa Simones and Alicia Stokes; and

2. Members whose terms expire on August 30, 2004 are Molly Feeney, Keith Rollings, Megan Bernard, Britney Dupee, William Lane, Hannah Pennington, Brenwin Soucie, Nathanael Yellis, Patricia Takacs and Jennifer Thompson.

The term of the person appointed to replace the vacant position previously held by William Barker expires on August 30, 2004.

Sec. 4. Executive Branch youth advisory committee. The Commissioner of Education, the Secretary of State and the Director of the Office of Substance Abuse within the Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services shall develop recommendations for the establishment of a youth advisory committee within the Executive Branch to serve as a resource for any state agency charged with developing, implementing or enforcing programs, policies or laws that apply specifically to youth. The Commissioner of Education, the Secretary of State and the Director of the Office of Substance Abuse shall report those recommendations to the Legislative Youth Advisory Council, established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 3, section 168-A, in the fall of 2003.