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 Center for Public Service," and the Revisor of Statutes shall implement this revision when updating, publishing or republishing the statutes.

Sec. 4. Transition provisions. All existing supplies, forms, letterheads and similar items bearing the name of or referring to the Bangor Mental Health Institute or to the Superintendent of the Bangor Mental Health Institute may be used by the Dorothea Dix Center for Public Service or the Superintendent of the Dorothea Dix Center for Public Service until existing supplies of these items are exhausted.

All existing contracts, agreements and compacts of the Bangor Mental Health Institute currently in effect continue in effect.

Any positions authorized and allocated subject to the personnel laws to the Bangor Mental Health Institute are transferred to the Dorothea Dix Center for Public Service and may continue to be authorized.

SUMMARY

This bill changes the name of the Bangor Mental Health Institute to the Dorothea Dix Center for Public Service. The bill also creates the Dorothea Dix Award.