245.699 AMERICAN INDIAN MENTAL HEALTH ADVISORY COUNCIL.
The commissioner shall appoint an American Indian Mental Health Advisory Council to
help formulate policies and procedures relating to Indian mental health services and programs
and to make recommendations regarding approval of grants provided under section
245.713,
subdivision 2
. The council consists of 15 members appointed by the commissioner and must
include representatives who are authorized by tribal resolution from each of the 11 Minnesota
reservations; one representative from the Duluth urban Indian community; two from the
Minneapolis urban Indian community; and one from the St. Paul urban Indian community.
Representatives from the urban Indian communities must be selected through an open
appointments process under section
15.059. The terms, compensation, and removal of American
Indian Mental Health Advisory Council members are governed by section
15.059.
History: 2001 c 161 s 42