Sec. 6. Office of Substance Abuse and Department of Education; review of survey support. The Director of the Office of Substance Abuse within the Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services shall review the office's procedures for preparing and training teachers and others who administer the Maine Youth Drug and Alcohol Use Survey in the schools to ensure that all persons administering the survey are adequately prepared to perform that task. The Director of the Office of Substance Abuse and the Commissioner of Education shall, in coordination with appropriate representatives of local school districts, develop a plan for training and coordinating the administration of the 2004 Maine Youth Drug and Alcohol Use Survey, or any successor survey, and present that plan to the Legislative Youth Advisory Council, established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 3, section 168-A, in the fall of 2003.

Sec. 7. Department of Education. The Commissioner of Education shall review the Project ALERT program and other similar prevention programs and prepare recommendations on the viability of those programs as options to the Drug Abuse Resistance Education, DARE, program in Maine schools. The commissioner shall include a teacher training program as part of any recommended option considered by the department. Options recommended by the commissioner must be available statewide and available through the system of learning results as an alternative to the DARE program offered through the Maine State Police. The commissioner shall present those recommendations to the Legislative Youth Advisory Council, established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 3, section 168-A, in the fall of 2003.

Sec. 8. Review of Content Standards in system of learning results. As part of the review of the content standards and performance indicators required under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 6209, subsection 4, the Commissioner of Education shall determine whether the content standards pertaining to health and physical education adequately incorporate the principles and goals of the alcohol and drug use policies for student athletes as proposed in the 2002 report by the Youth Policy and Empowerment Project. The commissioner shall propose changes to those content standards