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Department-backed RS 31820 aims to clean up outdated Health and Welfare code references; committee introduces measure
Summary
The Department of Health and Welfare backed RS 31820, a bill to remove outdated statutory references to the department and reassign or eliminate functions that no longer fit within its responsibilities, legislative staff said.
Jared Larson, Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Chief at the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, presented RS 31820 as a housekeeping and recodification measure that removes outdated references to the Department of Health and Welfare and reallocates functions to the appropriate agencies.
Larson told the committee about several categories of changes: references left over after the 1990s and 2000s reorganizations that transferred functions to the Department of Juvenile Corrections and the Department of Environmental Quality; antiquated…
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