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2005 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 37.1-84.3 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 37.1-84.3. Appointments to state and local human rights committees.
The Board shall appoint a state human rights committee, which
shall appoint local human rights committees to address alleged violations of
consumers' human rights. One-third of the appointments made to the state or
local human rights committees shall be consumers or family members of
consumers, with at least two consumers who are receiving or who have received
within five years of their initial appointment public or private mental health,
mental retardation, or substance abuse treatment or habilitation services on
each committee. In addition, at least one appointment to the state
and each local human rights committee shall be a health care provider. Remaining
appointments shall include lawyers, health care providers, and persons
with interest or knowledge or training in the mental health, mental retardation
or substance abuse field. No current employee of the Department or a community
services board, behavioral health authority, or local government department
with a policy-advisory community services board shall serve as a member of the
state human rights committee. No current employee of the Department; a
community services board, behavioral health authority or local government
department with a policy-advisory community services board; or any facility or
program licensed or funded by the Department shall serve as a member of any
local human rights committee that serves an oversight function for the
employing facility, program or organization.