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Add Interagency Coordinating Group Members |
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Responses
Received From
Agency
on Aging (AOA)
Department
of Labor (DOL)
Human
Services Department (HSD)
Department
of Health (DOH)
Children,
Youth & Families Department (CYFD)
SUMMARY
Synopsis
of Bill
House
Bill 373 amends the Interagency Coordinating Group provision in the Children,
Youth and Families Department (CYFD) enabling statute by adding members to the
standing Interagency Coordinating Group and changing the duties of the group.
HB 373 substitutes the Lieutenant Governor for
“a member of the governor’s office” and makes her the Chair of the group;
requires the group to assist the Governor’s office in “coordinating services
and developing cross-agency goals for the participating agencies” in meetings
convened by the Chair for that purpose “no less than quarterly”; and eliminates
the Children, Youth and Families Advisory Committee, which the statute
previously charged with planning and coordinating services in conjunction with
the Secretary of CYFD.
The newly created group adds the Secretary of
CYFD, the Director of the AOA and the Lieutenant Governor, who will join the
Secretaries of Finance and Administration, Health, Human Services and Labor,
the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Chairman of the Joint Interim
Health and Human Services Committee in assisting the Governor’s office.
Significant
Issues
HB 373 shifts the direction of the Interagency
Coordinating Group from the Secretary of CYFD to the Governor’s Office in order
to effect both coordination and cross-agency goals.
ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS
The agencies included
in HB 373 can complete the provisions of the bill with existing staff resources.
DW/prr