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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="10-312" title_number="10" title_name="Mental Health Law" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Advisory Bodies">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Each county advisory committee and each intercounty advisory committee may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Create subcommittees; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Have additional individuals participate as needed.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Each county advisory committee and intercounty advisory committee shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Monitor, review and evaluate the allocation and adequacy of publicly funded mental health services within the county through means such as conducting or participating in site visits;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Determine the needs of the county mental health system, including quality of services, gaps in the system, and interagency coordination;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Participate in the development of the local mental health plan and local mental health budget;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Prepare and disseminate an annual report to the following:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>The health officer;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>In Montgomery County, the director of the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>The county mental health director;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>The governing body of the appropriate county;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>The director of the local core service agency or local behavioral health authority, if any;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="6">
          <text>The regional mental health director;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="7">
          <text>The Director;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="8">
          <text>The Secretary; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="9">
          <text>The Behavioral Health Advisory Council; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Include in the annual report, at a minimum, the following:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>A description of the progress of the county mental health system;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Recommendations on actions needed to improve the system;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>Recommendations on priorities for allocation of funds; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>In accordance with those priorities and after consideration of financial resources, recommendations on appropriate allocation of funds;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Review and comment upon the annual core service agency or county mental health plan and preliminary budget, prior to submission of the budget to the State; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Review and comment upon the annual fiscal report.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
