EXECUTIVE ORDER
07-05

WHEREAS, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is authorized pursuant to Chapter 192, RSMo; and

WHEREAS, the Missouri Department of Transportation is authorized pursuant to Article IV, Section 12, of the Missouri Constitution and Chapter 226, RSMo; and

WHEREAS, Chapters 306 and 577, RSMo, require the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to license and regulate the chemical analysis used in determining the alcohol or drug content of motor vehicle and watercraft operators; and

WHEREAS, the Breath Alcohol Program is responsible for performing on-site inspection of breath analyzers, as well as, approving permits to operate and maintain evidential breath analyzers; permits to analyze blood, urine and saliva for drugs; and courses to instruct permit holders in the use of breath analyzer equipment; and

WHEREAS, the Breath Alcohol Program was established to ensure alcohol and drug testing is conducted in a uniform way throughout the state; and

WHEREAS, the Missouri Department of Transportation, Division of Highway Safety, currently supports the two major facilities involved in training and equipping law enforcement on issues related to breath alcohol testing; and

WHEREAS, the work of the Breath Alcohol Program would be strengthened by a move to the Missouri Department of Transportation, where other state initiatives promoting highway safety are located; and

WHEREAS, the Missouri State Government Review Commission recommended this transfer in its November 2005 Report; and

WHEREAS, the transfer of the Breath Alcohol Program would better serve Missouri's citizens by increasing efficiencies and is a component of the Governor's Executive Branch Reorganization Plan of 2007; and

WHEREAS, I am committed to integrating executive branch operations to ensure that the state delivers quality services in the most accessible manner and at the lowest cost to taxpayers.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, MATT BLUNT, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the State of Missouri, including the Omnibus State Reorganization Act of 1974, do hereby order the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and the Missouri Department of Transportation to cooperate to:

1. Transfer all the authority, powers, duties, functions, records, personnel, property, contracts, budgets, matters pending, and other pertinent vestiges of the Breath Alcohol Program from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to the Missouri Department of Transportation, by Type I transfer, as defined under the Reorganization Act of 1974; and

2. Develop mechanisms and processes necessary to effectively transfer the Breath Alcohol Program to the Missouri Department of Transportation; and

3. Transfer the responsibility for staff support for the Breath Alcohol Program from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to the Missouri Department of Transportation; and

4. Take the steps necessary to maintain compliance with federal requirements, so as not to jeopardize federal financial participation with this consolidation.

This Order shall become effective no sooner than August 28, 2007, unless disapproved within sixty days of its submission to the First Regular Session of the 94^th General Assembly.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Missouri, in the City of Jefferson on this 30th day of January, 2007.

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