§ 37.2-204. Appointments to state and local human rights committees
The Board shall appoint a state human rights committee that 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 current or former consumers or family members of current or former 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 and persons with interest, knowledge, or training in the mental health, mental retardation, or substance abuse field. No current employee of the Department, a community services board, or a behavioral health authority shall serve as a member of the state human rights committee. No current employee of the Department, a community services board, a behavioral health authority, or any facility, program, or organization licensed or funded by the Department or funded by a community services board or behavioral health authority shall serve as a member of any local human rights committee that serves an oversight function for the employing facility, program, or organization.
(1999, c. 969, § 37.1-84.3; 2001, c. 453; 2005, cc. 201, 716.)
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