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Subcommittee approves transfer of three DHEC regulatory items to Department of Public Health
Summary
The Medical Affairs Subcommittee voted to approve three noncontroversial regulatory transfers and technical changes that move existing DHEC rules into the new Department of Public Health (DPH) chapter and remove athletic trainers from DPH regulatory text following legislative changes.
The Medical Affairs Subcommittee approved three regulatory housekeeping actions that move existing regulatory text from the former Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) into the new Department of Public Health (DPH) chapter, remove athletic trainers from DPH regulation, and rename the chapter previously numbered 61 to the new chapter 60.
The changes were presented as non-substantive, technical transfers needed because DPH inherited rules that had formerly been codified under DHEC. A staff member described the first item (regulation 5,341) as replicating FOIA-related access-to-restricted-information text in DPH’s chapter so that “DES is taking over the area of the code that the former DHEC had,” and the move requires DPH to populate the new chapter 60 with the inherited language.
Another item (regulation 5,344) removes athletic trainers from the DPH regulatory text because state statute moved athletic trainers out of DHEC’s umbrella and into the jurisdiction of the licensing agency LLR; the change deletes the now-obsolete language. The third housekeeping action renames or re-allocates rules from chapter 61 to chapter 60 to reflect the agency transition.
Committee members treated the items as technical and moved to approve them together. The subcommittee approved the three items by oral vote; the record indicates a voice vote and did not include a roll-call tally.
The subcommittee noted that DHEC personnel, including Caitlin Foran and DPH staff, were available to answer questions but that the items were routine transfers rather than new substantive policy changes.
