§ 42-7.2-6.1. Transfer of powers and functions.
(a) There are hereby transferred to the executive office of health and human services
the powers and functions of the departments with respect to the following:
(1) Fiscal services including budget preparation and review, financial management, purchasing
and accounting and any related functions and duties deemed necessary by the secretary;
(2) Legal services including applying and interpreting the law, oversight to the rulemaking
process, and administrative adjudication duties and any related functions and duties
deemed necessary by the secretary;
(3) Communications including those functions and services related to government relations,
public education and outreach and media relations and any related functions and duties
deemed necessary by the secretary;
(4) Policy analysis and planning including those functions and services related to the
policy development, planning and evaluation and any related functions and duties deemed
necessary by the secretary;
(5) Information systems and data management including the financing, development, and
maintenance of all databases and information systems and platforms as well as any
related operations deemed necessary by the secretary;
(6) Assessment and coordination for long-term care including those functions related to
determining level of care or need for services, development of individual service/care
plans and planning, identification of service options, the pricing of service options
and choice counseling;
(7) Program integrity, quality control, and collection and recovery functions including
any that detect fraud and abuse or assure that beneficiaries, providers, and third
parties pay their fair share of the cost of services, as well as any that promote
alternatives to publicly financed services, such as the long-term care health insurance
partnership;
(8) Protective services including any such services provided to children, elders and adults
with developmental and other disabilities; and
(9) [Deleted by P.L. 2010, ch. 23, art. 7, § 1.]
(10) The HIV/AIDS care and treatment programs.
(b) The secretary shall determine in collaboration with the department directors whether
the officers, employees, agencies, advisory councils, committees, commissions, and
task forces of the departments who were performing such functions shall be transferred
to the office.
(c) In the transference of such functions, the secretary shall be responsible for ensuring:
(1) Minimal disruption of services to consumers;
(2) Elimination of duplication of functions and operations;
(3) Services are coordinated and functions are consolidated where appropriate;
(4) Clear lines of authority are delineated and followed;
(5) Cost-savings are achieved whenever feasible;
(6) Program application and eligibility determination processes are coordinated and, where
feasible, integrated; and
(7) State and federal funds available to the office and the entities therein are allocated
and utilized for service delivery to the fullest extent possible.
(d) Except as provided herein, no provision of this chapter or application thereof shall
be construed to limit or otherwise restrict the departments of children, youth and
families, human services, health, and behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities
and hospitals from fulfilling any statutory requirement or complying with any regulation
deemed otherwise valid.
(e) The secretary shall prepare and submit to the leadership of the house and senate finance
committees, by no later than January 1, 2010, a plan for restructuring functional
responsibilities across the departments to establish a consumer-centered integrated
system of health and human services that provides high quality and cost-effective
services at the right time and in the right setting across the life-cycle.