39-3511 ADVISORY COUNCIL.

TITLE 39

HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 35

IDAHO CERTIFIED FAMILY HOMES

39-3511. Advisory council. (1) The department shall establish a state level advisory council consisting of twenty-two (22) members appointed by the organizations and/or agencies represented on the council. The chairman of the council shall be elected from the membership.

The members of the council shall be:

(a) The director or his designee;

(b) The state ombudsman for the elderly or his designee;

(c) The director of the state protection and advocacy system or his designee;

(d) The director of the state developmental disabilities council or his designee;

(e) The director of the Idaho health care association or his designee;

(f) An advocate for citizens with mental illness in the state;

(g) Four (4) certified family home providers;

(h) Five (5) administrators or licensees of residential care or assisted living facilities, one (1) of whom shall be the president of the state association representing the largest number of residential care or assisted living facilities in Idaho, two (2) of whom shall be designees representing such associations, and two (2) at-large designees appointed by the department. The administrators or licensees shall be selected so as to represent residential care or assisted living facilities providing care to the elderly, individuals with mental illness, and individuals with developmental disabilities, respectively;

(i) Six (6) residents, three (3) of whom reside in residential care or assisted living facilities and three (3) of whom reside in certified family homes. A resident may be represented by his family member; and

(j) The local representative of the American association of retired persons (AARP).

(2) Members who are not state agency representatives shall serve three (3) year terms. A vacancy shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term from the same class of persons represented by the outgoing member.