Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 20023 – Education
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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 20023
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 20003
- Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 20003
- Treatment: means the broad range of emergency, outpatient, intermediate and inpatient services and care, including career counseling, diagnostic evaluation, employment, health, medical, psychiatric, psychological, recreational, rehabilitative, social service care, treatment and vocational services, that may be extended to a drug user, a person with substance use disorder or a person in need of assistance due to the use of a dependency-related drug. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 20003
To the fullest extent possible, the Commissioner of Education shall coordinate all elementary and secondary school substance use disorder education programs administered by the Department of Education and funded under the federal Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 with programs administered by the Department of Health and Human Services. The Commissioner of Education shall participate in planning, budgeting and evaluation of substance use disorder programs and ensure that substance use disorder education programs administered by the Department of Education that involve any community participation are coordinated with available treatment services. [PL 2017, c. 407, Pt. A, §35 (AMD).]
Nothing in this section interferes with the authority of the Department of Education to receive and allocate federal funds under the federal Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986. [PL 1989, c. 700, Pt. B, §46 (AMD); PL 1989, c. 934, Pt. A, §3 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1989, c. 700, Pt. B, §46 (AMD). PL 1989, c. 934, §A3 (NEW). PL 1991, c. 601, §§16,17 (AMD). PL 2011, c. 657, Pt. AA, §32 (AMD). PL 2017, c. 407, Pt. A, §35 (AMD).