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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="13-1505" title_number="13" title_name="Miscellaneous Health Care Programs" subtitle_number="15" subtitle_name="Children's Environmental Health">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A majority of the full authorized membership of the Advisory Council is a quorum.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Advisory Council shall meet at least six times a year, at the times and places that it determines.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Each member of the Advisory Council is entitled to reimbursement for expenses under the Standard State Travel Regulations, as provided in the State budget.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Maryland Department of Health shall coordinate with the Department of the Environment and other State agencies to provide for staffing of the Advisory Council.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Advisory Council may employ consultants subject to the State budget.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Advisory Council may contract for an analysis of the current State organizational structure regarding children’s environmental health and protection.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An analysis under this subsection shall be performed in a manner consistent with the recommendation of the Advisory Council on Environmental Justice contained in the Council’s report dated November 1999.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
