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Health and Human Services and the Joint Standing Committee on | Appropriations and Financial Affairs a plan to create a new budget | and financial management system and reporting structure for the | Department of Health and Human Services. The recommended structure | must address security and authority issues, reporting | administration, position administration, performance budget | administration, biennial budget issues, budget document issues and | annual reports issues. The commissioner shall invite the following | or their designees to join a working group to aid in the | preparation of the new budget and financial management structure: | the department's Deputy Commissioner of Finance, the State Budget | Officer, the State Controller, the Director of the Office of Fiscal | and Program Review and the Director of the Office of Policy and | Legal Analysis. |
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| | Sec. 8. Functions and duties; rules, guidelines, policies and manuals. | Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary and in | accordance with Public Law 2003, chapter 689, the units | established within the Department of Health and Human Services | pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 22-A, section 201, | subsection 2 shall assume the functions and the duties of the | bureaus, divisions and offices established under Title 22 and | Title 34-B and the Office of Substance Abuse established under | Title 5, chapter 521. Notwithstanding Title 5, chapter 375 and | in accordance with Public Law 2003, chapter 689, Part B, section | 1, all rules, guidelines, policies, manuals and similar documents | adopted by or distributed by either the former Department of | Human Services or the former Department of Behavioral and | Developmental Services that are in effect as of the effective | date of this Act remain in effect until rescinded, revised or | amended, without regard to references therein to departmental | offices, bureaus, divisions, units or employee titles or | classifications that may no longer exist or that may be changed | in the future. |
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| | Sec. 9. Personal services appropriation and allocation transfers. Available | balances of personal services appropriations and allocations in | fiscal year 2005-06 within the Department of Health and Human | Services that are identified as savings resulting from the merger | of the former Department of Human Services and the former | Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services may be | transferred within the personal services line category within the | same fund by financial order upon the recommendation of the State | Budget Officer and approval of the Governor. The purpose of | these transfers must be to provide permanent, ongoing funding for | the pay range reallocation of positions to achieve pay equity. | The Commissioner of Health and Human Services shall provide a | report to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human | Services and the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations |
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