Section 31-8-302. Composition; chairperson and other officers; advisory members

   (a) The Georgia Alzheimer's and Related Dementias State Plan Task Force shall be composed of six members and shall include the director of the Division of Aging Services within the Department of Human Services, the commissioner of community health or his or her designee, the state health officer or his or her designee, the chairperson of the House Committee on the Health and Human Services, the chairperson of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, and the chairperson of the House Committee on Human Relations and Aging.

(b) The director of the Division of Aging Services within the Department of Human Services shall serve as the chairperson of the task force. The task force may elect other officers as deemed necessary. The chairperson of the task force may designate and appoint committees from among the membership of the task force as well as appoint other persons to perform such functions as he or she may determine to be necessary as relevant to and consistent with this article. The chairperson shall only vote to break a tie.

(c) The task force shall invite other advisory members to assist the committee and may consider the following in making its selection: a person with Alzheimer's disease; a person with Alzheimer's related dementia; such person's caregiver; a representative of the nursing facility industry; a representative from the adult day care services industry; a representative of the home health industry; a representative of the personal care home industry; a physician; a consultant pharmacist; an Alzheimer's disease and related dementias researcher; law enforcement personnel; and other stakeholders from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, voluntary health organizations, and the faith-based community.

Code 1981, § 31-8-302, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 586, § 1/SB 14.