2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 81-3207 — Existing rules, regulations, orders, and judicial or administrative suits or proceedings; effect of transfer; laws, how construed.

Section 81-3207
Existing rules, regulations, orders, and judicial or administrative suits or proceedings; effect of transfer; laws, how construed.

All rules, regulations, and orders of the Department on Aging, the Department of Health, the Department of Public Institutions, the Department of Social Services, or the Office of Juvenile Services of the Department of Correctional Services adopted prior to January 1, 1997, in connection with the powers, duties, and functions transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure under the Nebraska Health and Human Services System Act, shall continue to be effective until revised, amended, repealed, or nullified pursuant to law.

No suit, action, or other proceeding, judicial or administrative, lawfully commenced prior to January 1, 1997, or which could have been commenced prior to that date, by or against any of such agencies, or any director or employee thereof in such director's or employee's official capacity or in relation to the discharge of his or her official duties, shall abate by reason of the transfer of duties and functions from such agency to the Department of Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure.

On and after January 1, 1997, unless otherwise specified, whenever any provision of law refers to such agency or agencies in connection with duties and functions transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure, such law shall be construed as referring to such department.

Source:

Laws 1996, LB 1044, § 28

Laws 2003, LB 467, § 16

Cross References:

Nebraska Partnership for Health and Human Services Act,see section 81-3001.

~Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement, 2006