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RI Gen L § 40.1-8-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-8 - Governor's Committee on Mental Retardation|Section 40.1-8-3 - Appointment of officers and employees - Rules - Meetings.

§ 40.1-8-3. Appointment of officers and employees — Rules — Meetings.(a) The governor shall designate one member of the committee to serve as its chairperson during the governor's term of office or until he or she appoints another member of the committee to serve in that capacity. The committee shall elect annually, from among its members, a vice chairperson, who shall serve as such until a successor is elected and who is authorized to act as chairperson pro tempore of the committee during the absence of the chairperson or should there be a vacancy for any cause in the office of the chairperson. The committee shall appoint an executive secretary to serve as executive officer and secretary of the committee. The executive secretary may be the employee of another agency of state government, appointed to serve as executive secretary of the committee, with the consent of the executive office of the secretary's own agency.(b) The committee may appoint such other personnel as may be necessary for the efficient performance of the duties prescribed by this chapter.(c) The committee shall make rules for the conduct of its affairs, and shall meet at least bimonthly, and at other times upon the call of the chair or the written request of any two (2) members.History of Section.P.L. 1978, ch. 368, § 1.
RI Gen L § 40.1-8-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-8 - Governor's Committee on Mental Retardation|Section 40.1-8-4 - Compensation and expenses of committee.

§ 40.1-8-4. Compensation and expenses of committee.The members of the committee shall receive no compensation for their services as committee members, but may, at the discretion of the governor, be reimbursed for traveling and other expenses actually incurred in the performance of their official duties.History of Section.P.L. 1978, ch. 368, § 1.
RI Gen L § 40.1-8-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-8 - Governor's Committee on Mental Retardation|Section 40.1-8-5 - Purpose of committee.

§ 40.1-8-5. Purpose of committee.(a) It shall be the duty of the committee to work in cooperation with the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities and such other interested federal and state agencies, private organizations, and community groups in promoting the amelioration of mental retardation through the utilization of whatever community and state resources the committee may deem necessary to accomplish this.(b) The committee shall consider and advise the governor, through the office of mental retardation, and the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals, on such mental retardation legislation and other retardation matters as its members, the governor, the director of the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals, and the assistant director for mental retardation may request; including, but not being limited to, advising and consulting with the office of mental retardation concerning improving the care, rehabilitation, and the training of mentally retarded persons, purchase of facilities, plans for construction of mental retardation facilities and the administration of programs and facilities (private and public) which receive state funds for the purpose of ameliorating mental retardation and/or otherwise providing services for mentally retarded persons.History of Section.P.L. 1978, ch. 368, § 1.
RI Gen L § 40.1-8-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-8 - Governor's Committee on Mental Retardation|Section 40.1-8-6 - Authority to receive gifts.

§ 40.1-8-6. Authority to receive gifts.The committee is authorized to receive any gifts, grants, or donations made for any of the purposes of its program, and to disburse and administer the same in accordance with the terms thereof.History of Section.P.L. 1978, ch. 368, § 1.
RI Gen L § 40.1-8.5-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-8.5 - Community Mental Health Services|Section 40.1-8.5-1 - Policy and purpose.

§ 40.1-8.5-1. Policy and purpose.(a) The state recognizes that children and adults with mental disabilities are entitled to appropriate, accessible, and adequate mental health services in the least restrictive environment that appropriately can serve their needs.(b) The state recognizes private, nonprofit community mental health centers that provide mental health services to children and adults with mental disabilities, and it is the policy of the state to support these mental health centers as an adjunct and alternative to inpatient services. The state shall fund community mental health centers and shall provide a mechanism by which the state and local governments share responsibility for ensuring community mental health services to mentally disabled children and adults and/or those who are unable to pay for mental health services.History of Section.P.L. 1993, ch. 390, § 2.
RI Gen L § 40.1-8.5-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-8.5 - Community Mental Health Services|Section 40.1-8.5-2 - Definitions.

§ 40.1-8.5-2. Definitions.As used in this chapter:(1) "Audit" means an annual financial accounting of a center's financial situation, conducted by a certified public accountant, within one hundred twenty (120) days from the end of the center's fiscal year, and that includes, for the year reviewed and the immediate preceding year, full financial disclosure of the center's assets, liabilities, fund balances, revenues, and expenditures by program, and a verification of matchable funds for the year reviewed.(2) "Board" means the community mental health board created pursuant to this chapter as the governing body of the community mental health center.(3) "Center" means the community mental health center which is a local, nonprofit entity organized and incorporated pursuant to the laws of the state, governed by a board, and recognized by the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals as the community mental health center for a designated mental health service area.(4) "Department" means the state department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals.(5) "Director" means the director of the state department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals.(6) "Fiscal year" means the fiscal year used by the state.(7) "Matching grant funds" means state funds in an amount up to and not more than four dollars ($4.00) for each dollar of matchable funds, certified and budgeted in accordance with this chapter. Matching grant funds excludes, but may be in addition to, other funds provided by the state for mental health services.(8) "Mental disability" means any mental disorder in which the capacity of the person to exercise self-control or judgment in the conduct of his or her affairs and social relations or to care for his or her personal needs is impaired.(9) "Mental health services" means those services provided to mentally disabled children and adults and shall include, but not be limited to, psychiatric, medical, nursing, psychological, social, rehabilitative, and support services provided in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of mental disabilities, and in addition, may include those services designed to prevent mental disabilities or be of a consultative, informational, or educational nature about mental disabilities.(10) "Mental health service area" herein also referred to as "service area," means the geographical area within the boundaries of cities and towns, as designated by the director.(11) "Participating municipalities" means those cities and towns that provide funds to a particular community mental health center for mental health services and receive matching grant-fund-supported services from that community mental health center.History of Section.P.L. 1993, ch. 390, § 2.
RI Gen L § 40.1-8.5-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-8.5 - Community Mental Health Services|Section 40.1-8.5-3 - Matchable funds.

§ 40.1-8.5-3. Matchable funds.(a) Matchable funds are those dollars received, whether through a grant by a center for the general provision of mental health services, excluding funds for capital expenditures, and received from one or more of the following:(1) Individual or business charitable gifts;(2) Community fund raising net dollars;(3) Unrestricted donations;(4) A participating municipality.(b) The director may authorize a center to include as matchable funds those federal funds the center received directly from the federal government for the provision of mental health services when:(1) The director determines that without the inclusion of federal funds provided, mental health services to the uninsured or to high-risk populations in the center's service area will be seriously deficient or disrupted; and(2) The federal funds are not subject to statutory or regulatory restrictions or requirements that would prevent their use as matchable funds.History of Section.P.L. 1993, ch. 390, § 2.
RI Gen L § 40.1-8.5-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-8.5 - Community Mental Health Services|Section 40.1-8.5-4 - Community mental health boards - Composition.

§ 40.1-8.5-4. Community mental health boards — Composition.Each community mental health center shall be governed by a board composed of at least nine (9) members of recognized ability and/or interest in the problems of mental health and substance abuse. Community mental health boards referred to in this chapter shall be incorporated under the laws of Rhode Island and governed by their bylaws. Members of the community mental health boards shall be derived through nonprofit corporation structures. The membership of each board shall reflect, as much as possible, the diversity of the center's mental health service area and the consumers it serves.History of Section.P.L. 1993, ch. 390, § 2.
RI Gen L § 40.1-8.5-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-8.5 - Community Mental Health Services|Section 40.1-8.5-5 - Powers and duties of community mental health boards.

§ 40.1-8.5-5. Powers and duties of community mental health boards.Subject to the provisions of this section and the rules and regulations of the director, each board shall:(1) Identify the mental health service needs of its service area population;(2) Assess the mental health services available to meet the mental health needs within its service area;(3) Review and evaluate the mental health services provided by its center;(4) Ensure that the mental health services offered by its center with matchable funds and match address the identified mental health service needs of the service area to the maximum extent possible within the limits of the appropriated and allocated matching grant funds;(5) Be available to the department to plan and coordinate the development and delivery of mental health services within its service area;(6) Prepare and approve a plan and budget, prepared in accordance with department requirements, for the delivery of mental health services to be provided by its center with resources, including, but not limited to, matchable funds and matching grant funds; the plan and budget to be submitted annually to the department for its approval;(7) Develop and implement a mechanism by which its center's consumers and family members of its consumers participate in the overall goals, objectives, and methods of the center, as reflected in its plan;(8) Solicit public and private financial support for mental health services provided by its center;(9) Promote and approve contractual agreements with other state, federal, local, and private agencies, e.g., social service, judicial, health, and education entities, as it deems necessary;(10) Employ the executive administrator of its center and, in the event such a position is vacant, assume the functions of that position;(11) Arrange for and review its center's audit;(12) Ensure that funds available pursuant to this chapter are used to provide mental health services to those who do not have the ability to pay and that each client's eligibility to receive public or private assistance is exhausted prior to the expenditure of state and local monies available pursuant to this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1993, ch. 390, § 2.
RI Gen L § 40.1-8.5-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-8.5 - Community Mental Health Services|Section 40.1-8.5-6 - Appropriation and allocation of matching grant funds.

§ 40.1-8.5-6. Appropriation and allocation of matching grant funds.(a) The state's appropriations for the department shall be sufficient to provide matching grant funds as defined in this chapter.(b) Matching grant funds shall be allocated annually to each board by the department, in accordance with this chapter, and shall be based on the plan and budget for the funding period submitted to the department by the board and the matchable funds received and certified in its audit for the next to last year preceding the funding year.History of Section.P.L. 1993, ch. 390, § 2.
RI Gen L § 40.1-8.5-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-8.5 - Community Mental Health Services|Section 40.1-8.5-7 - Power and duties of director.

§ 40.1-8.5-7. Power and duties of director.In addition to the powers and duties delineated elsewhere in this chapter and other powers and duties already conferred by law, the director shall:(1) Promulgate administrative and fiscal regulations necessary to carry out the requirements of this chapter;(2) Plan and coordinate, with the assistance of the boards, the development and delivery of comprehensive mental health services within each service area;(3) Establish guidelines for general evaluation procedures to ensure program quality;(4) Review each board's overall plan and budget and approve the expenditure of department funds;(5) Provide consultative staff services to each board, as needed;(6) Require assurances from each board that no persons within its area are denied service on the basis of race, creed, color, gender, age, disability, or sexual preference;(7) Require assurances from each board that no person will be denied service based on the person's ability to pay, contingent upon the availability of resources;(8) Require assurances from each board that hiring of staff, full or part-time, is done without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, gender, age, disability, sexual preference, or political affiliation and is in compliance with state and federal laws;(9) Provide qualified department personnel under the supervision of the director to monitor implementation of this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1993, ch. 390, § 2.
RI Gen L § 40.1-9-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-9 - Interstate Compact on Mental Health|Section 40.1-9-2 - Compact administrator.

§ 40.1-9-2. Compact administrator.The fiscal agent in the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals shall be the compact administrator and authorized to carry out all of the powers and duties set forth in the compact, provided, that the duties set forth in the compact shall not be in diminution of the duties or powers of the fiscal agent.History of Section.R.P.L. 1957, ch. 20, § 2; Reorg. Plan No. 1, 1970; G.L. 1956, § 26-6-2; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1.
RI Gen L § 40.1-9-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-9 - Interstate Compact on Mental Health|Section 40.1-9-3 - Payments by state.

§ 40.1-9-3. Payments by state.The compact administrator, subject to the approval of the chief state fiscal officer, may make or arrange for any payments necessary to discharge any financial obligations imposed upon this state by the compact or by any supplementary agreement entered into thereunder.History of Section.R.P.L. 1957, ch. 20, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 26-6-3; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1.
RI Gen L § 40.1-10-1 - 40.1-10-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-10 - Interstate Compact on the Mentally Disordered Offender|Section 40.1-10-1 - 40.1-10-4 - [Repealed.]

§ 40.1-10-1 — 40.1-10-4. [Repealed.]
RI Gen L § 40.1-21-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-21 - Division of Developmental Disabilities|Section 40.1-21-1 - Developmental disabilities services.

§ 40.1-21-1. Developmental disabilities services.The department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals shall be required to plan, develop, coordinate, and administer a complete, comprehensive, and integrated statewide program for developmentally disabled adults.History of Section.P.L. 1967, ch. 223, § 1; P.L. 1968, ch. 178, § 1; Reorg. Plan No. 1, 1970; G.L. 1956, § 23-43-1; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; P.L. 1987, ch. 181, § 2; P.L. 1995, ch. 122, § 1.
RI Gen L § 40.1-21-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-21 - Division of Developmental Disabilities|Section 40.1-21-2 - Division of developmental disabilities established.

§ 40.1-21-2. Division of developmental disabilities established.There shall be established a division of developmental disabilities within the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals to carry out the intent and purposes of this chapter. There shall be an executive director of the division of developmental disabilities within the department who shall serve as the chief executive of the division.History of Section.P.L. 1967, ch. 223, § 1; P.L. 1968, ch. 178, § 1; Reorg. Plan No. 1, 1970; G.L. 1956, § 23-43-2; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; P.L. 1987, ch. 181, § 2; P.L. 1993, ch. 120, § 2; P.L. 1995, ch. 122, § 1.
RI Gen L § 40.1-21-2.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-21 - Division of Developmental Disabilities|Section 40.1-21-2.1 - Change of former name.

§ 40.1-21-2.1. Change of former name.Whenever in any existing law, regulation, or document, reference is made to the "division of retardation and developmental disabilities," the term "division of developmental disabilities" shall be used in lieu thereof.History of Section.P.L. 1993, ch. 120, § 6.
RI Gen L § 40.1-21-3 - 40.1-21-3.2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-21 - Division of Developmental Disabilities|Section 40.1-21-3 - 40.1-21-3.2 - [Repealed.]

§ 40.1-21-3 — 40.1-21-3.2. [Repealed.]
RI Gen L § 40.1-21-4.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-21 - Division of Developmental Disabilities|Section 40.1-21-4.1 - [Repealed.]

§ 40.1-21-4.1. [Repealed.]History of Section.P.L. 1983, ch. 158, § 1; Repealed by P.L. 1987, ch. 181, § 3, effective January 1, 1988.
RI Gen L § 40.1-21-4.2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-21 - Division of Developmental Disabilities|Section 40.1-21-4.2 - Declaration of purpose.

§ 40.1-21-4.2. Declaration of purpose.There is presently no single state agency that provides or secures services that many developmentally disabled citizens may require. Therefore, the purposes of this chapter are as follows:(1) To establish a division of developmental disabilities within the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals;(2) To advance the public interest, to promote, safeguard, and protect the human dignity, constitutional and statutory rights and liberties, social well-being, and general welfare of all developmentally disabled citizens of the state;(3) To provide or to secure certain social, protective, and other types of appropriate services for all developmentally disabled citizens;(4) To promote the coordination of all available services, both generic and specialized, for all developmentally disabled citizens under public and private auspices;(5) To ensure that all developmentally disabled adults in this state receive developmental, supportive, and ancillary services as prescribed in an individualized program plan, developed with the participation of the developmentally disabled person and his or her family or guardian or advocate; and(6) To promote a comprehensive system to support the families of developmentally disabled adults in their own homes and environments, and to encourage families to maintain their developmentally disabled relatives in their own homes when appropriate.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 181, § 4; P.L. 1993, ch. 120, § 4; P.L. 1995, ch. 122, § 1.
RI Gen L § 40.1-21-4.4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-21 - Division of Developmental Disabilities|Section 40.1-21-4.4 - [Repealed.]

§ 40.1-21-4.4. [Repealed.]History of Section.P.L. 1993, ch. 244, § 2; Repealed by P.L. 2008, ch. 100, art. 17, § 11, effective June 26, 2008.
RI Gen L § 40.1-21-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-21 - Division of Developmental Disabilities|Section 40.1-21-5 - [Repealed.]

§ 40.1-21-5. [Repealed.]History of Section.P.L. 1968, ch. 178, § 1; Reorg. Plan No. 1, 1970; G.L. 1956, § 23-43-5; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; Repealed by P.L. 1995, ch. 122, § 1, effective July 1, 1995.
RI Gen L § 40.1-21-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals|Chapter 40.1-21 - Division of Developmental Disabilities|Section 40.1-21-6 - The John E. Fogarty Institute of Rhode Island.

§ 40.1-21-6. The John E. Fogarty Institute of Rhode Island.The department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals is hereby authorized and directed, within the funds currently available or to be made available in the future, to plan for and foster the establishment of a university-affiliated developmental disabilities center which shall be devoted, but not limited, to the education and training of personnel in all fields related to developmental disabilities and to research in developmental disabilities which shall be known as "The John E. Fogarty Institute of Rhode Island."History of Section.P.L. 1967, ch. 223, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 23-43-4; P.L. 1968, ch. 178, § 1; Reorg. Plan No. 1, 1970; G.L. 1956, § 23-43-6; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; P.L. 1995, ch. 122, § 1.