(17.3) Chairman of the Mental Health and Justice
Advisory Committee.
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(d) Term of office.--
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(2) The term of the [chairman] chairmen of the Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention Committee and the Mental
Health and Justice Advisory Committee shall be concurrent
with [his] their service as [chairman of that committee]
chairmen of their respective committees.
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Section 2. The act is amended by adding sections to read:
Section 7.3. Mental Health and Justice Advisory Committee.
(a) Establishment.--There is hereby established the Mental
Health and Justice Advisory Committee within the commission.
(b) Composition.--The members of the committee shall be
appointed by the Governor and shall include representatives of
the Department of Corrections, the Department of Drug and
Alcohol Programs, the Department of Military and Veterans
Affairs, the Office of Mental Health Services and Substance
Abuse Services of the Department of Human Services, the
Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, the Administrative
Office of Pennsylvania Courts, the Pennsylvania Commission on
Sentencing, units of local government, public and private
agencies and organizations which provide or advocate for mental
health treatment and services, agencies which provide housing
for the mentally ill, victim service agencies, drug and alcohol
treatment providers, police, district attorneys, public
defenders, judges of the courts of common pleas, county adult
and juvenile probation officers, county wardens and any other
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