| | | Sec. J-3. Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services; appropriation and | | position transfer. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the | | Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services, Mental | | Retardation Services - Community program is unable to contract | | for mental retardation services required by the Community Consent | | Decree, Consumer Advisory Board v. Robert W. Glover et al, USDC | | Civil No. 91-321-P-C, then the department is authorized by | | financial order to transfer up to 8 vacant positions and existing | | funding from General Fund appropriations to establish 8 mental | | health and mental retardation caseworker positions. |
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| | | Sec. K-1. 34-A MRSA §1215, as reallocated by RR 2001, c. 1, §43, is | | amended to read: |
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| | | All adult correctional facilities and juvenile facilities | operated by the department must be accredited | | shall seek accreditation of its correctional and detention | | facilities by a nationally recognized correctional accrediting | body by January 1, 2005must | thereafter | | standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over | | criminal justice matters regarding its progress towards | | accreditation by January 1, 2005. |
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| | | Sec. K-2. Commission established. That the Commission to Improve the | | Sentencing, Supervision, Management and Incarceration of | | Prisoners, referred to in this section as "the commission," is | | established. |
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| | | 1. Commission membership. The commission consists of 16 | | members appointed as follows: |
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| | | A. Two members of the Senate appointed by the President of | | the Senate; |
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| | | B. Two members of the House of Representatives appointed by | | the Speaker of the House; |
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| | | C. The Attorney General or a designee; |
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| | | D. The Commissioner of the Department of Corrections or a | | designee; |
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