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Michigan Department of History, Arts and Libraries; Michigan Department of Information Technology; Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulation, abolished by Governor Engler with most of the department transfer to the Department of Commerce until Commerce was split up with the former L&R powers transferred to the Department of Consumer and ...
History. The department, as the Department of Commerce, was formed in 1965 by Section 225 of the Executive Organization Act of 1965, 1965 PA 380, MCL 16.325. The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulation was abolished with most responsibilities transferred to the newly formed Department.
michigan.gov/mdcr. Michigan Department of Civil Rights is a department of the Michigan State Government created in 1965 to support the work of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission of Michigan's Constitution of 1963. The Commission directs the work of the department and has eight members. [2] The executive director is John E. Johnson, Jr.
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy ( EGLE ), formerly Michigan Department of Environmental Quality ( Michigan DEQ, MDEQ, or simply DEQ ), is a principal department of the U.S. state of Michigan for environmental issues. The department was created in 1995.
History. The Iowa Board of Social Welfare was founded in 1937 by the Iowa General Assembly. In 1967, it was merged with the Iowa Board of Control and Iowa Board of Parole to form the Iowa Department of Social Services. It was renamed the Iowa Department of Human Services in 1987. [1] In 2022, as part of Governor Reynold's State Agency Alignment ...
The Michigan Department of Human Services (DHS) is the state's second-largest agency. The DHS oversees almost 12,000 employees and has an annual budget of more than $6 billion to administer federal programs. The DHS staff handles more than 1.5 million medical assistance cases and approximately 1.7 million cash and food-assistance cases all ...
The first Secretary of Human Resources, Dr. Lenox Baker, was appointed by Governor Robert W. Scott. The Division of Public Health, an original part of the department, was taken out of the DHR in 1989. Most of its functions were transferred back to the DHR in 1997, when the agency was renamed the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Michigan Department of State is administered by the Secretary of State, who is elected on a partisan ballot for a term of four years in gubernatorial elections. The incumbent secretary of state is Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat elected in 2018 and 2022 . The secretary of state is the third-highest official in the State of Michigan. [1]