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Abuse Services to eliminate artificial barriers to services by an |
| unnecessarily strict separation of adult and children's mental |
| health, mental retardation and substance abuse systems. This bill |
| gives statutory authority for stakeholders of all department |
| services to participate in their local quality councils and |
| includes providers of services to persons with mental retardation |
| or developmental disabilities, or both, and persons receiving |
| substance abuse services in the local service networks. This bill |
| eliminates population-specific committees that exist to advise the |
| Commissioner of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance |
| Abuse Services on implementation of statewide planning. The |
| functions of these groups will be assumed by the statewide quality |
| improvement council whose membership will be reflective of all |
| constituencies served by the department. |
