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Senator Brian Lenny seeks bureau-chief accountability at Department of Health and Welfare; RS32014 sent to print
Summary
Senator Brian Lenny presented RS32014 to align bureau chief appointments and accountability at the Department of Health and Welfare; the committee voted to send the request to print for bill drafting and hearings.
Senator Brian Lenny told the Senate Health and Welfare Committee that RS32014 would increase accountability at the Department of Health and Welfare by aligning bureau staffing with division standards and oversight practices.
Lenny said the Department of Health and Welfare is the state's largest agency with “somewhere hovering around 3,000 employees and a $6,000,000,000 budget.” He described a structure in which divisions contain multiple bureaus and said there are roughly three dozen bureau chiefs who supervise hundreds of employees and millions of dollars in budget authority; Lenny cited, by way of example, Benefit Field Operations at about 418 full-time positions compared with the Department of Agriculture’s 249 positions.
Senator Keiser moved and Senator Seiderfeld seconded to send RS32014 to print; the committee approved the motion by voice vote. Lenny described the RS as aligning bureau staffing with division standards to ensure accountability over taxpayer dollars; he said it will be debated in a future hearing.
The committee did not record a roll-call tally during the voice vote. RS32014 will proceed to drafting and public committee hearings.
