Executive Reorganization Act

The act reorganizes the executive branch of state government into a defined structure of cabinet departments, creating a cabinet with stated powers and duties and establishing the office of secretary as the head of a department. It fixes how other bodies relate to that structure — as adjunct agencies or as agencies administratively attached to a department — while preserving the authority of policy-making boards and barring the creation of agencies outside the framework it sets. It also supplies the machinery for carrying the reorganization out: reorganization plans that do not abate pending actions, mergers and transfers of functions effected by executive order, and rules for who may create advisory committees and how they are composed, how long they last, and how their members are compensated.

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