| | | 1. Members whose terms expire on August 30, 2003 are | | William Barker, Trevor Bragdon, Paul Brunetti, Elizabeth | | Comeau, David Heidrich, Barrett Littlefield, Melissa Simones | | and Alicia Stokes; and |
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| | | 2. Members whose terms expire on August 30, 2004 are Molly | | Feeney, Keith Rollings, Megan Bernard, Britney Dupee, William | | Lane, Hannah Pennington, Brenwin Soucie and Nathanael Yellis. |
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| | | The terms of persons appointed to replace the 2 vacancies on | | the council that existed as of January 23, 2003 expire on | | August 30, 2004. |
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| | | Sec. 4. Executive Branch youth advisory committee. The Commissioner of | | Education, the Secretary of State and the Director of the | | Office of Substance Abuse within the Department of Behavioral | | and Developmental Services shall develop recommendations for | | the establishment of a permanent youth advisory committee | | within the Executive Branch to serve as a resource for any | | state agency charged with developing, implementing or | | enforcing programs, policies or laws that apply specifically | | to youth. The Commissioner of Education, the Secretary of | | State and the Director of the Office of Substance Abuse shall | | report those recommendations to the Legislative Youth Advisory | | Council, established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 3, | | section 168-A, in the fall of 2003. |
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| | | Sec. 5. Office of Substance Abuse. The Director of the Office of | | Substance Abuse within the Department of Behavioral and | | Developmental Services shall: |
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| | | 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: |
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| | | 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 |
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| | | 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 |
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