AN ACT relating to reorganization.
     Amend various KRS sections to establish the Department for Community-Based Services; abolish the Department for Social Services and the Department for Social Insurance; establish the Office of Performance Enhancement; abolish the Division of Operations and Resource Management in Office of Program Support and replace it with the Division of Personnel, which is created within the Office of Program Support; create the Division of Technical Support and the Division of Systems Support within the Office of Technology Services; create the Division of Outcome-Based Contracts and the Division of Quality Development within the Office of Performance Enhancement; establish the Division of Policy Development and Protection and the Divisions of Permanency, Family Support, Child Care, Child Support, Disability Determinations Services, and Service Regions within the Department for Community-Based Services; abolish the Divisions of Management and Development, Field Services, Administrative Review, Child Support Enforcement, and Disabilities Determinations from the Department for Social Insurance; abolish the Divisions of Program Management and Family Services from the Department for Social Services; abolish the Division for Disability Determinations Services within the Department for Community-Based Services and establish the Department for Disability Determination Services; appoint the commissioner for Community-Based Services, or a designee, and the commissioner of the Department for Juvenile Justice, or a designee, as permanent members of the State Interagency Council for Services to Children with an emotional disability; transfer the staff and appropriations for the Case Inquiry and Response functions in the Office of the Ombudsman to the Department for Community-Based Services, Division of Family Support; transfer the administrative hearings function and its staff from the Department for Community-Based Services, Division of Family Support, to the Office of Performance Enhancement, Division of Quality Development; transfer the maintenance of the L&N Building in Jefferson County from the Office of Program Support to the Department for Community-Based Services; transfer the implementation function of the Empower Transportation Initiative from the Office of Technology Services to the Department for Community-Based Services; transfer the maintenance and requests of exchange of state funds from the United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, and the mediation and liaison between family support staff and quality control from the Office of Performance Enhancement to the Department for Community-Based Services; transfer the special projects and leasing and design functions from the Department for Community-Based Services to the Office of Program Support; transfer systems support from the Department for Community-Based Services to the Office of Technology Services; transfer the legal secretarial support from the Department for Community-Based Services to the Office of the General Counsel; transfer the functions of the federal compliance monitoring and the training for TANF, food stamp, and medical assistance programs from the Department for Community-Based Services to the Office of Performance Enhancement; make conforming amendments; confirm Executive Orders 98-731, 99-203, 99-1200, and 99-255.

     (Prefiled by the sponsor(s) indicated with recommendation for passage, and as amended by the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare)

     Jan 4-introduced in Senate
     Jan 5-to Health and Welfare (S)
     Jan 12-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
     Jan 13-2nd reading, to Rules
     Jan 14-posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, January 19, 2000
     Jan 19-3rd reading, passed 38-0
     Jan 20-received in House
     Jan 21-to State Government (H)
     Jan 26-posted in committee
     Feb 1-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
     Feb 2-2nd reading, to Rules
     Feb 3-posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 4, 2000
     Feb 7-3rd reading, passed 99-0
     Feb 8-received in Senate; enrolled, signed by each presiding officer, delivered to Governor
     Feb 15-signed by Governor (Acts ch. 14)