1. Review the procedures used by the Office of Substance Abuse for collecting information on drug and alcohol use among youth, including a review of Washington State's "Healthy Youth Survey," and report back to the Legislative Youth Advisory Council, established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 3, section 168- A, in the fall of 2003 with recommendations on the following issues:

A. Options to the existing Maine Youth Drug and Alcohol Use Survey tool that include a more appropriate survey tool and a methodology based on random sampling that provides statistically valid data at the state level and within participating local school districts; and

B. Expanding the target population of the survey to include not only students who attend school but also home-schooled students and youth who attend school infrequently or have dropped out of school; and

2. Review procedures used by the Office of Substance Abuse for awarding grants for youth-related drug and alcohol abuse prevention programs and services to ensure that those grants are being awarded to programs with the highest demonstrated level of effectiveness and in those areas of the State having the highest demonstrated need. The director shall report the findings of that review to the Legislative Youth Advisory Council, established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 3, section 168- A, in the fall of 2003.

Sec. 6. Office of Substance Abuse and Department of Education; review of survey support. The Director of the Office of Substance Abuse within the Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services shall review the office's procedures for preparing and training teachers and others who administer the Maine Youth Drug and Alcohol Use Survey in the schools to ensure that all persons administering the survey are adequately prepared to perform that task. The Director of the Office of Substance Abuse and the Commissioner of Education shall, in coordination with appropriate representatives of local school districts, develop a plan for training and coordinating the administration of the 2004 Maine Youth Drug and Alcohol Use Survey, or any successor survey, and present that plan to the Legislative Youth Advisory Council, established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 3, section 168-A, in the fall of 2003.