Chapter 5F, Chapter 5F

(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that state government must be made more responsive to the citizens of the state; that the various agencies and boards responsible for the execution of the laws of this state must be improved; that more effective management of the exec…

(a) There are created, within the executive branch of the state government, the following departments: (1) Department of Administration; (2) Department of Environmental Protection; (3) Department of Health; (4) Department of Homeland Security; (5) Department of Revenue; (6) Depar…

(a) Each person appointed to serve as a secretary shall take the oath or affirmation prescribed by section five, article four of the Constitution, and the oath shall be certified by the person who administers the same and filed in the office of the Secretary of State. (b) Each pe…

(a) As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning: (1) "Administrator" means any person who fills a statutorily created position within or related to an agency or board (other than a board member) and who is designated by statute as commissioner…

(a) Each agency listed in the online state phone directory shall update the employee information in the directory, as required by this section, or provide the Office of Technology the following information, unless it is determined by the submitting agency that publishing such inf…

Beginning December 31, 2020, each agency shall maintain a website that provides the following information in a searchable form by the public, if applicable: (1) The office contact information, including office location and mailing address, telephone number, facsimile number, offi…

(a) The following agencies and boards, including all of the allied, advisory, affiliated, or related entities and funds associated with any agency or board, are incorporated in and administered as a part of the Department of Administration: (1) Public Employees Insurance Agency p…

(a) The Legislature hereby finds that to attract and retain employees in the Department of Health Facilities, Department of Human Services, and the Department of Health, the secretaries of these departments and heads of the agencies, boards, and commissions therein require additi…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to devolve the functions of the Department of Health and Human Resources into three new and separate departments of the executive branch as provided in this Act over a period of transition that concludes with the termination of the Departme…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, the secretary of each department shall have plenary power and authority within and for the department to: (1) Employ and discharge within the office of the secretary employees as may be necessary to carry out t…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code (including subsections (h) and (i), section one of this article) to the contrary, each administrator required by other provisions of this code to be appointed by the Governor shall: (1) Continue to be appointed by the Governor …

All records, assets and property, of whatever kind or character, owned by or utilized in the administration of the agencies and boards and all of the personnel utilized in the administration of such agencies and boards, including the administrators, are hereby transferred to the …

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that it may be desirable and appropriate for certain boards and commissions created by the Legislature which may be called upon to review, adjudicate or reverse administrative actions and decisions of agencies of the state to be fiscally and…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that boards and commissions empowered to issue bonds, incur indebtedness and provide financing or financial services for a public purpose may in some cases benefit the public interest or operate more efficiently through consolidation of lega…

(a) A department secretary may enter into a memorandum of understanding with another department secretary to transfer a permanent state employee from a position that is to be consolidated or eliminated, to a funded vacant position in another Department, in accordance with the pro…

(a) Legislative findings and intent. – (1) The several exemptions from centralized administration of the state’s personnel have created multiple, redundant, inefficient, and overly complex personnel and human resources systems in several parts of state government; and (2) Shiftin…

(a) The Legislature hereby finds that to attract and retain employees in the Bureau of Senior Services, Department of Administration, Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Revenue, and Department of Veterans’ Assistance, the chief administrative officers of this b…

The Governor shall submit to the Legislature on or before January 1, 1991, a report setting forth the reorganization implemented by executive action pursuant to this chapter and resulting cost savings as determined by the Governor, any recommendations for further reorganization r…

The provisions of this chapter shall become operative as to any department created in section two, article one of this chapter upon the appointment of the secretary of such department.

If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held unconstitutional or invalid, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter, and to this end the provisions of this chapter a…