GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 313

Short Title:  GPAC/Ass't. Sec. Pos. Elim./DHR.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Martin of Guilford.
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Referred to:  Government Performance Audit.
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February 22, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO IMPLEMENT A RECOMMENDATION OF THE GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE AUDIT COMMITTEE TO ELIMINATE CERTAIN ASSISTANT SECRETARY POSITIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The General Assembly finds that an efficient organization has minimal layers of management to ensure that there are clear lines of communication throughout the organization structure, to facilitate organizational structure, and to facilitate organizational decision-making efficiency.  The General Assembly further finds that there are three Assistant Secretary positions in the Department of Human Resources that are not performing the functions that their titles imply but, in effect, represent an unneeded layer of management in the Department.
Sec. 2.  (a)	The positions of Assistant Secretary for Budget and Management, of Assistant Secretary for Administration and Liaison Services, and the Assistant Secretary for Aging are eliminated.  The Secretary of Human Resources shall ensure that the organizational units within the span of control of these assistant secretaries are reorganized so as to report directly to the Secretary or Deputy Secretary or to be moved into the appropriate program divisions.
(b)	G.S. 143B-181.2 is repealed.
Sec. 3.  The base budget of the Department of Human Resources is reduced by eighty-nine thousand dollars ($89,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and by eighty-nine thousand dollars ($89,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year due to the implementation of this act.
Sec. 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.