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B.__One member representing advocates for the legal rights
of people living with disabilities, chosen by the President
of the Senate;

 
C.__One member representing people with mental disabilities,
chosen by the Speaker of the House of Representatives; and

 
D.__One member representing children living with mental
illness or mental disabilities, chosen by the Attorney
General.

 
3.__Selection procedure.__Any person may nominate a candidate
for the award.__The committee shall develop a review and
selection procedure.

 
Sec. 2. 34-B MRSA §3201, as enacted by PL 1983, c. 459, §7, is
amended to read:

 
§3201. Maintenance

 
The commissioner shall maintain 2 state mental health
institutes for the mentally ill, one at Bangor called the Bangor
Mental Health Institute Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center and the
other at Augusta called the Augusta Mental Health Institute
Riverview Psychiatric Center.

 
Sec. 3. Maine Revised Statutes amended; revision clause. Wherever in the
Maine Revised Statutes the words "Bangor Mental Health Institute"
appear or reference is made to that entity or those words, those
words are amended to read or mean, as appropriate, "Dorothea Dix
Psychiatric Center," and the Revisor of Statutes shall implement
this revision when updating, publishing or republishing the
statutes.

 
Sec. 4. Maine Revised Statutes amended; revision clause. Wherever in the
Maine Revised Statutes the words "Augusta Mental Health
Institute" appear or reference is made to that entity or those
words, those words are amended to read or mean, as appropriate,
"Riverview Psychiatric Center," and the Revisor of Statutes shall
implement this revision when updating, publishing or republishing
the statutes.

 
Sec. 5. Transition provisions. All existing supplies, forms,
letterheads and similar items bearing the name of or referring to
the Bangor Mental Health Institute or the Superintendent of the
Bangor Mental Health Institute may be used by the Dorothea Dix
Psychiatric Center or the Superintendent of the Dorothea Dix
Psychiatric Center until existing supplies of these items are
exhausted.


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