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Department seeks code cleanup to remove outdated Health and Welfare references
Summary
RS 31,820 would update Idaho code to remove antiquated references to the Department of Health and Welfare, reassign legacy functions to the Department of Environmental Quality and Department of Juvenile Corrections, and remove obsolete Board of Health references; department staff described it as a 'stop doing' list and housekeeping bill.
Jared Larson, Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Chief at the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, presented RS 31,820 to the House Health and Welfare Committee and asked the committee to print the request for a formal hearing. Larson described the RS as a "stop doing list" that removes dead or antiquated statutory references that still assign functions to the Department of Health and Welfare despite those functions having moved to other agencies.
Larson said the bill addresses several categories: roughly one-third of the…
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