Report Title:
Department of Health; Dental Health Division; Restructure
Description:
Reduces the number of employees of the dental health division within the department of health in three years. Places that division within the department's health resources administration. Provides that funds previously appropriated to support the division shall be used solely for purchase of services to monitor dental advocacy. Requires that the dental health division report to the legislature with a plan for dental health care and provide legislation. (SD1)
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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
2024 |
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TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002 |
S.D. 1 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to dental health.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1.
Section 321-61, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:"§321-61 Dental health. (a) The department of health shall constitute the sole agency of the State for the purposes of carrying out the activities and performing the functions provided in this part.
(b) The dental health division shall be placed within the department's health resources administration and shall consist of three individuals as follows:
(1) One individual shall be the head of the division, who shall be licensed to practice dentistry in this State in accordance with chapter 448 and have the necessary expertise to handle policy issues;
(2) One individual shall serve as a fiscal agent to monitor contracts; and
(3) One individual shall serve as support staff."
SECTION 2. All rights, powers, functions, and duties of the department of health, dental health division, are transferred to the department of health, health resources administration.
All officers and employees whose functions are transferred by this Act shall be transferred with their functions and shall continue to perform their regular duties upon their transfer, subject to the state personnel laws and this Act.
No officer or employee of the State having tenure shall suffer any loss of salary, seniority, prior service credit, vacation, sick leave, or other employee benefit or privilege as a consequence of this Act, and such officer or employee may be transferred or appointed to a civil service position without the necessity of examination; provided that the officer or employee possesses the minimum qualifications for the position to which transferred or appointed; and provided that subsequent changes in status may be made pursuant to applicable civil service and compensation laws.
An officer or employee of the State who does not have tenure and who may be transferred or appointed to a civil service position as a consequence of this Act shall become a civil service employee without the loss of salary, seniority, prior service credit, vacation, sick leave, or other employee benefits or privileges and without the necessity of examination; provided that such officer or employee possesses the minimum qualifications for the position to which transferred or appointed.
If an office or position held by an officer or employee having tenure is abolished, the officer or employee shall not thereby be separated from public employment, but shall remain in the employment of the State with the same pay and classification and shall be transferred to some other office or position for which the officer or employee is eligible under the personnel laws of the State as determined by the head of the department or the governor.
SECTION 3. All appropriations, records, equipment, machines, files, supplies, contracts, books, papers, documents, maps, and other personal property heretofore made, used, acquired, or held by the department of health, dental health division, relating to the functions transferred to the department of health, health resources administration, shall be transferred with the functions to which they relate; provided that all appropriations used to fund:
(1) Positions displaced by this Act; and
(2) Other administrative expenses of the dental health division other than salaries and related expenses of personnel that have not been displaced;
shall be used solely for purchase of services to monitor dental advocacy.
SECTION 4. The dental health division shall report to the legislature twenty days before the convening of the 2003 and 2004 legislature on:
(1) How to better serve the covered population statewide;
(2) What current problems exist within the dental health division that hampers its ability to service the neighbor islands; and
(3) Provide legislation to provide a more comprehensive dental health plan for Hawaii residents.
SECTION 5. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2005, provided that section 4 shall take effect upon approval.