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reorganization plans for the Executive Branch.
This section accomplishes that goal.
The first section, the first sentence of Section
4.19 restates the General Assembly's plenary power both
to prescribe the functions, powers and duties of the
principal departments and the various administrative units
of the executive branch, and to create, reorganize,
abolish or reallocate functions, powers and duties among
the principal departments and the various administrative
units fo the executive branch.
The second sentence juxtaposes against the first
the more limited role of the governor. He is merely given
power to initiate plans which reorganize or reallocate
functions, powers and duties among, or which create or
abolish, principal departments or administrative
units of the executive branch. Hence it is recognized that
the General Assembly and governor are given coextensive
power to determine how the executive branch will be organi-
zationally structured to implement these programs.
This section provides that if the governor's plan
for reorganizing the executive branch affects existing