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Committee approves technical recodification bill for new Department of Children, Youth and Families
Summary
Senators approved a reviser's-office technical cleanup bill to finalize statutory references and transfer authority into the newly created Department of Children, Youth and Families; committee recorded a voice vote and sent the file to the Judiciary Committee.
Senators on the Health and Human Services Committee moved Senate File 2706, a reviser-drafted technical and conforming updates bill tied to the 2023–24 creation of the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF).
The bill updates statutes that transferred programs into DCYF, modifies internal references and advisory-board memberships to insert the new commissioner, and corrects sections missed during prior recodification work, Senator Wicklund said.
The bill’s author said the changes are “technical and conforming” and “necessary to finalize the statutory infrastructure of the new agency” and that the bill carries no fiscal impact. Committee counsel reiterated that the reviser's office, with Senate Counsel and House Research, carried out the recodification instructions passed in 2023 and that the earlier recodification now sits in chapter 142B.
Committee members had no questions. Senator Wicklund moved the bill for referral; the committee adopted the motion by voice vote and the file was sent to the Judiciary Committee.
The action addresses statutory housekeeping needed after transferring programs from Human Services, Education and Public Safety into DCYF. The bill does not create new programs or a budget change; it formalizes previous transfers and clarifies which powers and duties now sit with the commissioner of children, youth and families.
The committee did not record a roll-call tally; the clerk announced the motion “prevails” after a voice vote.
Senate File 2706 will proceed to the Judiciary Committee for further consideration.
The committee spent a brief period on this single-subject technical bill before moving on to other agenda items.
