An Act to return DOC and Parole to Health and Human Services
This bill reorganizes state agency oversight by moving the Department of Correction (including the Parole Board) from the Executive Office of Public Safety into the Executive Office of Health and Human Services. It amends multiple sections of state law to replace "public safety" with "health and human services" in agency designations, affecting how these departments are administratively structured. The change does not alter the services provided by these agencies but shifts their reporting lines and leadership under a new umbrella office focused on health and human services. This is a structural reorganization, not a policy change to correctional or parole procedures.
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