Section 49-402e - Officers and employees transferred; civil service status; benefits and rights retained(a) On the effective date of this act, all officers and employees who were engaged immediately prior to the effective date of this act in the performance of powers, duties and functions which are transferred pursuant to the provisions of this act, and who in the opinion of the secretary of the Kansas department of health and environment are necessary to perform such powers, duties and functions, shall be transferred to and shall become officers and employees of the Kansas department of health and environment. All officers and employees so transferred shall be in the classified service under the Kansas civil service act. Any such officer or employee shall retain all retirement benefits and all rights of civil service which had accrued to or vested in such officer or employee prior to the effective date of this act. The service of each such officer or employee so transferred shall be deemed to have been continuous.L. 1988, ch. 192, § 5; July 1.