Relating to the organization, composition, meeting, and reporting requirements of health-related commissions, councils, and boards and including transition provisions

The bill strikes a requirement that the bureau of tobacco use prevention and control annually appear before the joint appropriations subcommittee that makes recommendations concerning the commission’s budget to report on the budget expenditures of the bureau. The bill includes transition provisions regarding the elimination of the division, and the establishment of the bureau. Any rule, regulation, form, order, or directive promulgated by the division in effect on the effective date of the bill remains in effect until it is amended, repealed, or supplemented by affirmative action of the bureau. Moneys remaining in any fund or account of the division are transferred to control of the bureau. The bill instructs the division to assist the department of public health in implementing the provisions of the bill. An administrative hearing or court proceeding initiated by or against the division is unaffected by the bill, and any cause of action or statute of limitation against the division applies against the bureau. MENTAL HEALTH PLANNING AND ADVISORY COUNCIL. The bill removes the requirement that one member of the mental health and disability services commission be selected from nominees submitted by the state’s council of the association of federal, state, county, and municipal employees. The bill limits the number of meetings that may be held by the federally created mental health planning and advisory council to no more than four per year. BOARD OF MEDICINE AND BOARD OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS —— ANNUAL REPORT. The bill repeals the requirement that the board of medicine and board of physician assistants submit an annual report to the general assembly and the governor regarding the collaborative efforts and team-building practices of the boards.