§ 100150 Health Services Department Duties

The State Department of Health Services succeeds to and is vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the State Department of Health as they relate to public health, licensing and certification of health facilities, except community care facility licensing to which the State Department of Social Services succeeds, and any other functions performed by the Division of Public Health of the State Department of Health on July 1, 1978, unless the function is transferred to a different state agency or department as a result of another provision of the statutes of the 1977–78 Regular Session of the Legislature amending this section. “State department,” “department,” or “State Department of Health” as used in this code, except in Article 7.5 (commencing with Section 416) of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Division 1 or as otherwise specified in this code, means the State Department of Health Services. The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development shall assume the functions and responsibilities of the Facilities Construction Unit of the former State Department of Health, including, but not limited to, those functions and responsibilities performed pursuant to the following provisions of law: Sections 13113 and 127050; Article 1 (commencing with Section 129000) of Chapter 1 of, and Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 129375) of, Part 6 of, and Part 7 (commencing with Section 129675) of, Division 107. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1996.)