SECTION 1. PURPOSE. In the passage of this Act, the General Assembly is cognizant of the intent of Section 5 of Act 100 of 1977 and Section 3 of Act 883 of 1981, which provided for the termination of a number of state agencies on June 30, 1983 unless studies of said state agencies by joint interim committees of the General Assembly, who were assigned in said Acts to make “Sunset reviews” of said agencies, determine that the continuation of certain of said state agencies is in the public interest. During the interim between the adoption of Act 100 of 1977, and Act 883 of 1981, and the convening of the 1983 Regular Session of the General Assembly, the respective joint interim committees of the General Assembly have made studies and review of the purposes, activities, justifications, and needs for each of the state agencies enumerated in Section 5 of Act 100 of 1977, Section 3 of Act 883 of 1981, and have recommended the continuation of a number of said state agencies in their present form. It is, therefore, the purpose of this Act to provide for the continuation of certain state agencies, subsequent to June 30, 1981, and to provide that the provisions of Section 5 of Act 100 of 1977, and Section 3 of Act 883 of 1981, which would have provided for the termination of the state agencies enumerated herein on June 30, 1983, shall be of no effect, and that said state agencies be continued in their present form and under their present names, and such state agencies or their successor agencies shall continue to function the same as if the provisions of Act 100 of 1977 and Section 3 of Act 883 of 1981, which provided for the termination of the state agencies enumerated herein, had never been enacted.
SECTION 2. The following state agencies, which under the provisions of Section 5 of Act 100 of 1977 or Section 3 of Act 883 of 1981, were scheduled to terminate on June 30, 1983, are hereby continued in their present form and under their present names, and said state agencies, or their successor agencies, shall continue to function and shall perform the respective powers, functions, and duties assigned to them by law from and after June 30, 1983, the same as they would have functioned if Act 100 of 1977 and Section 3 of Act 883 of 1981 had never been enacted:
SECTION 3. This Act shall not have the effect of recreating any agency which has been abolished before the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 4. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
SECTION 5. EMERGENCY CLAUSE. It is hereby found and determined by the General Assembly that Act 100 of 1977 and Act 883 of 1981 provided for the termination of a number of State agencies and programs to be effective on June 30, 1983, that it was the intention of said Acts that each of said agencies and programs would be reviewed in the interim between the recess and adjournment and the convening of the Seventy-Fourth General Assembly by the Legislative Joint Interim Committees of the General Assembly to evaluate the purposes, duties and accomplishments of said agencies and programs with the view that the General Assembly would take action to continue in their present form those agencies and programs that were needed in the public interests; that other agencies and programs would be reorganized and that other agencies and programs would be allowed to terminate as provided by said Acts; and, as a result of said studies during the interim prior to the convening of the Seventy-Fourth General Assembly recommendations have been made to continue the operations of numerous agencies and programs which were to terminate on June 30, 1983; that the immediate passage of this Act is necessary to continue the various agencies and programs identified in this Act and that said action should be taken prior to June 30, 1983, at which time said agencies would be terminated under the provisions of said Acts, it being the intent of this Act that the agencies and programs defined herein would continue to function in their present form. Therefore, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.
APPROVED: March 24, 1983.