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

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

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

(d)  The Hawaii public housing authority andthe Hawaii state commission on the status of women are placed within thedepartment of human services for administrative purposes only. [L Sp 1959 2d, c1, §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 L1970, 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1975, c 79, §1; am L 1976, c 92, §§6, 8; am L 1980, c 10,§1; am L 1983, c 74, §1; gen ch 1985; am L 1987, c 338, §1(3) superseded by c339, §2(2); am L 1993, c 197, §2; am L 1996, c 186, §1; am L 1997, c 350, §4;am L 2003, c 92, §2; am L 2005, c 147, §2; am L 2007, c 249, §41]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.