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Opening language for agency transformation bill lays out 15 'cabinets', raises questions on oversight and finances
Summary
Representatives from the governor's office and the Bureau of Legislative Research presented the enabling provisions of a large reorganization bill that would create 15 departments ('cabinets'), consolidate administrative functions, and authorize technical code revisions; lawmakers pressed for clearer language on oversight, fund transfers, personnel authority, real‑estate title handling, senate confirmation, and financial impact calculations.
Representatives of the governor's office and legislative research staff presented the opening, enabling language for a broad ‘‘transformation’’ bill that would reorganize state agencies into 15 departments, or "cabinets," each led by a secretary. "This is just the opening language of the bill and will apply to all 15 cabinets," Amy Fetcher, chief transformation officer for the governor's office, told the committee.
Representative Andy Davis, the House sponsor on the Senate panel, outlined the structure: "You'll have 15 individual departments... There is a secretary over each department. Underneath that secretary, you'll have what essentially are today's departments, boards, commissions... Today's directors, agency heads... will be directors of those divisions, and there will be a secretary over them," Davis…
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