§26-14  Department of human services. 
(a)  The department of human services shall be headed by a single executive to
be known as the director of human services.



(b)  The department shall administer programs
designed to improve the social well-being and productivity of the people of the
State.  Without limit to the generality of the foregoing, the department shall
concern itself with problems of human behavior, adjustment, and daily living
through the administration of programs of family, child and adult welfare,
economic assistance, health care assistance, rehabilitation toward self-care
and support, public housing, and other related programs provided by law.



(c)  The functions and authority heretofore
exercised by the department of public welfare, the bureau of sight conservation
and work with the blind (except for the transcription services program
transferred to the department of education), the council on veterans' affairs,
and any other agency of the state or county governments with respect to the assistance
and care of the indigent and medically indigent as heretofore constituted are
transferred to the department of human services established by this chapter.



(d)  The Hawaii public housing authority and
the Hawaii state commission on the status of women are placed within the
department of human services for administrative purposes only. [L Sp 1959 2d, c
1, §20; am L 1961, c 128, §4; am L 1963, c 193, §4; am L 1965, c 175, §41(b);
Supp, §14A-19; am L 1967, c 274, §2; HRS §26-14; am L 1969, c 42, §1; am L
1970, c 105, §5; am L 1975, c 79, §1; am L 1976, c 92, §§6, 8; am L 1980, c 10,
§1; am L 1983, c 74, §1; gen ch 1985; am L 1987, c 338, §1(3) superseded by c
339, §2(2); am L 1993, c 197, §2; am L 1996, c 186, §1; am L 1997, c 350, §4;
am L 2003, c 92, §2; am L 2005, c 147, §2; am L 2007, c 249, §41]



 



Cross References



 



  State rehabilitation council, see §348-8.



 



Attorney General Opinions



 



  Qualifications of director construed.  Att. Gen. Op. 62‑18.