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Services" with "Department of Health and Human Services." Title
18-A, section 5-613, subsection (1) allows the costs of a guardian
ad litem for certain persons to be paid either by the Department of
Human Services or the Department of Behavioral and Developmental
Services. Section 36 allows the Department of Health and Human
Services to pay the costs of the guardian ad litem for those
persons and removes language made duplicative by this revision.

 
Public Law 2003, chapter 689, Part B, section 7 directs the
Revisor of Statutes to replace both "Commissioner of Human
Services" and "Commissioner of Behavioral and Developmental
Services" with "Commissioner of Health and Human Services." Title
19-A, section 4013, subsection 1, paragraph A includes both the
Commissioner of Human Services and the Commissioner of Behavioral
and Developmental Services in the Maine Commission on Domestic
and Sexual Abuse. Section 37 repeals one of the positions to
negate redundancy created by the revision clause.

 
Public Law 2003, chapter 689, Part B, section 6 directs the
Revisor of Statutes to replace both "Department of Human
Services" and "Department of Behavioral and Developmental
Services" with "Department of Health and Human Services." Title
20-A, section 5152, subsection 3 specifies that membership on the
advisory committee on truancy, dropouts and alternative education
includes representation from the Department of Human Services and
the Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services. Section
38 makes the Department of Health and Human Services change and
section 39 repeals one of the positions to negate redundancy
created by the revision clause.

 
Section 40 corrects a cross-reference. The Maine Sunset Act
was repealed in 1989; in 1995 the State Government Evaluation Act
was enacted to provide a systematic review of agencies of State
Government. Section 40 changes the reference from "Maine Sunset
Act" to the statutory cross-reference for the State Government
Evaluation Act.

 
Section 41 corrects a conflict created by Public Law 1999,
chapters 401 and 496, which enacted slightly different versions
of the Maine Dental Education Loan Program by repealing the
differing paragraphs and replacing them with the chapter 401
version.

 
Public Law 2003, chapter 689, Part B, section 7 directs the
Revisor of Statutes to replace both "Commissioner of Human
Services" and "Commissioner of Behavioral and Developmental
Services" with "Commissioner of Health and Human Services." Title
22, section 6-A requires the Commissioner of Human Services to


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