A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to modify the membership of the state consumer and family advisory committee and appropriate funds to support its operation.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  G.S. 122C‑171 reads as rewritten:
"§ 122C‑171.  State Consumer and Family Advisory Committee.
(a)	There is established the State Consumer and Family Advisory Committee (State CFAC). The State CFAC shall be a self‑governing and self‑directed organization that advises the Department and the General Assembly on the planning and management of the State's public mental health, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse services system.
(b)	The State CFAC shall be composed of 27 members. The members shall be composed exclusively of adult consumers of mental health, developmental disabilities, substance abuse, and traumatic brain injury services; and family members of consumers of mental health, developmental disabilities, substance abuse, and traumatic brain injury services. No more than twenty percent (20%) of the members shall be employed by, or have immediate family members employed by, an agency that provides mental health, developmental disabilities, substance abuse, or traumatic brain injury services. The terms of members shall be three years, and no member may serve more than two consecutive terms. Vacancies shall be filled by the appointing authority. The members shall be appointed as follows:
(1)	Nine by the Secretary. The Secretary's appointments shall reflect each of the disability groups. The terms shall be staggered so that terms of three of the appointees expire each year.
(2)	Six by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, selected from the three State regions for institutional services as follows: two from the Eastern Region, two from the Central Region, and two from the Western Region. The terms of the appointees shall be staggered so that the term of two appointees expires every year. At least two of the appointees shall be adult consumers of traumatic brain injury services or family members of consumers of traumatic brain injury services.
(3)	Six by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, selected from the three State regions for institutional services as follows: two from the Eastern Region, two from the Central Region, and two from the Western Region. The terms of the appointees shall be staggered so that the term of two appointees expires every year. At least two of the appointees shall be adult consumers of traumatic brain injury services or family members of consumers of traumatic brain injury services.
	
(5)	Six by the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners, selected from the three State regions for institutional services as follows: two from the Eastern Region, two from the Central Region, and two from the Western Region. The terms of the appointees shall be staggered so that the term of two appointees expires every year. At least two of the appointees shall be adult consumers of traumatic brain injury services or family members of consumers of traumatic brain injury services.
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SECTION 1.(b)  Notwithstanding the repeal of G.S. 122C‑171(b)(4) pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, current members of the State Consumer and Family Advisory Committee who were appointed by the Council of Community Programs shall serve out the remainder of their terms. As the current terms of these members expire, each of the appointing authorities identified in G.S. 122C‑171(b)(2), (3), and (5) shall, in the order listed in G.S. 122C‑171(b), take turns making an additional appointment to achieve conformity with G.S. 122C‑171(b), as amended by this act.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services, the sum of seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) in recurring funds for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year and the sum of seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) in recurring funds for the 2020‑2021 fiscal year to be used to support the State Consumer and Family Advisory Committee.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2019.