CHAPTER 236
H.P. 416 - L.D. 561
An Act To Rename the Bangor Mental Health Institute the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center and To Establish the Dorothea Dix Award
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 34-B MRSA c. 1, sub-c. 2-B is enacted to read:
SUBCHAPTER 2-B
DOROTHEA DIX AWARD
The commissioner shall establish the Dorothea Dix Award, which recognizes and honors outstanding achievement in improving the lives of people living with mental illness or mental disabilities. The award must be made on April 4th of each odd-numbered year at the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center. The Governor or the Governor's designee shall present the award.
1. Eligibility. A person who is a Maine resident or has direct long-standing ties with Maine is eligible to win the award.
2. Dorothea Dix Award Selection Committee; established. The Dorothea Dix Award Selection Committee, known in this subchapter as "the committee," is established and consists of the following 4 members:
A. One member representing people with mental illness, chosen by the Governor;
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:
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.
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 Psychiatric Center and may continue to be authorized.
Effective September 17, 2005.
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