An Act To Rename the Bangor Mental Health Institute the Dorothea Diz Psychiatric Center and To Establish the Dorothea Diz Award Further amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the summary and inserting in its place the following: Sec. I. 34-B MRSA Col, sub-c. 2-B is enacted to read: SUBCHAPTER 2-B OOROiBEA DDt AWARD S1301. Dorothea Diz Award The commissioner shall establish the Dorothea Dix Award, which recognizes and honors outstanding achievement in improving the lives of people living with mental illness or mental disabilities. The award must be made on April 4th of each odd numbered year at the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center. The Governor or the Governor's designee shall present the award. 1. Eligibility. A person who is a Maine resident or has direct long-standing ties with Maine is eligible to win the award. Page l-LR0306(2) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 0561
Committee Amendment CA_A_H349 (House)
Amends: 34-B MRSA §3201

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "4,, to HoP. 416, L.D. 561, Bill, "An 
Act To Rename the Bangor Mental Health Institute the Dorothea Dix 
Center for Public Service and To Establish the Dorothea Dix Award" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting 
the following: 
'An Act To Rename the Bangor Mental Health Institute the Dorothea 
Diz Psychiatric Center and To Establish the Dorothea Diz Award' 
Further amend the bill by striking out everything after the 
enacting clause and before the summary and inserting in its place 
the following: 
'Sec. I. 34-B MRSA Col, sub-c. 2-B is enacted to read: 
SUBCHAPTER 2-B 
OOROiBEA DDt AWARD 
S1301. 
Dorothea Diz Award 
The commissioner shall establish the Dorothea Dix Award, 
which recognizes and honors outstanding achievement in improving 
the 
lives 
of 
people 
living with 
mental 
illness 
or 
mental 
disabilities. 
The 
award must be made 
on April 4th of each 
odd numbered year at the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center. 
The 
Governor or the Governor's designee shall present the award. 
1. 
Eligibility. 
A person who is a Maine resident or has 
direct long-standing ties with Maine is eligible to win the award. 
Page l-LR0306(2) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A. to H.P. 416, L.D. 561 
2. 
Dorothea Dix Award Selection Committee; 
established. 
The 
Dorothea 
Dix 
Award 
Selection 
Committee. 
known 
in this 
subchapter as "the committee." is established and consists of the 
following 4 members: 
A. 
One 
member 
representing people with mental illness. 
chosen by the Governor; 
B. 
One member representing advocates for the legal rights 
of people living with disabilities. chosen by the President 
of the Senate; 
C. 
One member representing people with mental disabilities. 
chosen by the Speaker of the House of Representatives; and 
D. 
One 
member 
r~presenting children living with mental 
illness or mental 
disabilities. 
chosen 
by 
the 
Attorney 
General. 
3. 
Selection 
procedure. 
Any 
person 
may 
nominate 
a 
candidate for the award. 
The committee shall develop a review 
and selection procedure. 
Sec. 2. 34-B MRSA §3201, as enacted by PL 1983, c. 459, §7, 
is amended to read: 
§320l. 
Maintenance 
The 
commissioner 
shall 
maintain 
state 
mental 
health 
institutes for the mentally ill, one at Bangor called the 8aB~e~ 
MeB~a*-.:ae.a;k-h--l-Bst.it.1:lt.e Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center and the 
other at Augusta called the 
A1:l~1:l6~a--MeBt.a*--Hea*t.a--l-Bst.it.1:lt.e 
Riverview Psychiatric Center. 
Sec. 3. Maine Revised Statutes amended; revision clause. 
Wherever 
in the Maine Revised Statutes the words "Bangor Mental Health 
Institute" appear or reference is made to that entity or those 
words, those words are amended to read or mean, as appropriate, 
"Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center," and the Revisor of Statutes 
shall 
implement 
this 
reV1S1on 
when 
updating, 
publishing 
or 
republishing the statutes. 
Sec. 4. Maine Revised Statutes amended; revision clause. 
Wherever 
in the Maine Revised Statutes the words "Augusta Mental Health 
Institute" appear or reference is made to that entity or those 
words, those words are amended to read or mean, as appropriate, 
"Riverview Psychiatric Center," and the Revisor of Statutes shall 
implement this revision when updating, publishing or republishing 
the statutes. 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ,,~, to H.P. 416, L.D. 561 
Sec. 5. Transition provisions. 
All existing supplies, forms, 
letterheads and similar items bearing the name of or referring to 
the Bangor Mental Health Institute or the Superintendent of the 
Bangor Mental Health Institute may be used by the Dorothea Dix 
Psychiatric Center or the Superintendent of the Dorothea Dix 
Psychiatric Center until existing supplies of these items are 
exhausted. 
All existing contracts, 
agreements 
Bangor Mental Health Institute currently 
effect. 
and 
compacts 
of 
the 
in effect continue in 
positions 
laws 
to 
to 
the 
Any 
personnel 
transferred 
authorized 
and 
allocated 
subject 
to 
the 
Bangor 
Mental 
Health 
Institute 
Dorothea 
Dix 
Psychiatric Center 
and 
continue to be authorized.' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment is the majority report of the committee. 
the 
are 
may 
The amendment changes the new name for the Bangor Mental 
Health Institute to the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center and makes 
minor changes in the annual award of the Dorothea Dix Award. 
In 
addition, the amendment authorizes the revision of references to 
the Augusta Mental Health Institute, which was renamed in 2003. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Revised: 04129105 ;t;?ae. 
LD561 
LR0306(02) 
An Act To Rename the Bangor Mental Health Institute the Dorothea Dix Center for Public Service 
and To Establish the Dorothea Dix Award 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" 
Committee: Health and Human Services 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Minor cost increase - General Fund 
Replacement of existing signs at the Bangor Mental Health Institute can be absorbed by the Department of Health and 
Human Services utilizing existing budgetary resources. 
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