TITLE 42
State Affairs and Government
CHAPTER 42-7.2
Office of Health and Human Services
SECTION 42-7.2-2
§ 42-7.2-2 Executive office of health and
human services.
There is hereby established within the executive branch of state government an
executive office of health and human services to serve as the principal agency
of the executive branch of state government for managing the departments of
children, youth and families, health, human services, and behavioral
healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals. In this capacity, the
office shall:
(a) Lead the state's four (4) health and human services
departments in order to:
(1) Improve the economy, efficiency, coordination, and
quality of health and human services policy and planning, budgeting and
financing.
(2) Design strategies and implement best practices that
foster service access, consumer safety and positive outcomes.
(3) Maximize and leverage funds from all available public and
private sources, including federal financial participation, grants and awards.
(4) Increase public confidence by conducting independent
reviews of health and human services issues in order to promote accountability
and coordination across departments.
(5) Ensure that state health and human services policies and
programs are responsive to changing consumer needs and to the network of
community providers that deliver assistive services and supports on their
behalf.
(6) Administer Rhode Island Medicaid in the capacity of the
single state agency authorized under title XIX of the U.S. Social Security act,
42 U.S.C. § 1396a et seq., and exercise such single state agency authority
for such other federal and state programs as may be designated by the governor.
Except as provided for herein, nothing in this chapter shall be construed as
transferring to the secretary the powers, duties or functions conferred upon
the departments by Rhode Island general laws for the management and operations
of programs or services approved for federal financial participation under the
authority of the Medicaid state agency.
History of Section.
(P.L. 2006, ch. 246, art. 38, § 19; P.L. 2007, ch. 73, art. 3, § 1;
P.L. 2009, ch. 68, art. 5, § 1; P.L. 2012, ch. 241, art. 18, § 1;
P.L. 2015, ch. 141, art. 5, § 20.)
