Section 75-37,168 - Transfer of officers and employees of department of health and environment involved in state employee health benefits plan; determination by secretary of administration; civil service rights and benefits retained(a) All officers and employees of the division of health care finance of the department of health and environment who, immediately prior to the effective date of this order, are engaged in the exercise and performance of the powers, duties and functions involving the administration of the state employee health benefits plan and transferred by this order, as well as all officers and employees of the department of health and environment who are determined by the secretary of administration to be engaged in providing administrative, technical or other support services that are essential to the exercise and performance of the powers, duties and functions transferred by this order, are hereby transferred to the division of the state employee health benefits plan of the department of administration. All classified officers and employees so transferred shall retain their status as classified employees.(b) Officers and employees of the division of health care finance of the department of health and environment transferred by this order shall retain all retirement benefits and leave balances and rights that had accrued or vested prior to the date of transfer. The service of each such officer employee so transferred shall be deemed to have been continuous. Any subsequent transfers, layoffs or abolition of classified service positions under the Kansas civil service act shall be made in accordance with the civil service laws and any rules and regulations adopted thereunder. Nothing in this order shall affect the classified status of any transferred person employed by the division of health care finance of the department of health and environment prior to the date of transfer.(c) Notwithstanding the effective date of this order, the provisions of this order prescribing the transfer of officers and employees from the division of health care finance of the department of health and environment to the division of the state employee health benefits plan of the department of administration shall commence at the start of a payroll period.Executive Reorganization Order No. 45, § 7; L. 2020, ch. 21, § 7, eff. 7/1/2020