Professional statute overview
Enactment structure, operative effect and source provenance
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Purpose and legislative effect
“This section says the act is to be known as the Health and Safety Code.”
The Legislature states findings supporting a unified, single-payer-style health care financing system for all Californians. The State Department of Health Services is renamed the State Department of Health Care Services, and its retained functions continue with the renamed department. The Director of Health Care Services is appointed by the Governor with Senate confirmation, the director receives a salary set by law, and the Governor may appoint up to two chief deputies on the director’s recommendation. The director has the powers of a department head under the cited Government Code chapter. The Department of Health Services has a Division of Rural Health, and that division must administer specified chapters and sections.
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How the instrument operates
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Start with the recorded version
Enacted 1939. The date shown identifies this source expression and should not be treated as proof that no later change exists.
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A vessel carrying garbage for ocean dumping must not leave the state unless it has an inspector on board for the whole trip.
Section 117490.
The Legislature says the department should encourage high-quality, cost-effective services, and the county should disapprove poor-quality, underused, duplicative, or marginal services.
Section 11760.6.
The Legislature says the department and counties should work together cooperatively to help carry out this division.
Section 11778.
The Director of Finance may authorize withdrawals from the General Fund for this part, but only up to the amount of unsold bonds authorized for sale.
Section 1179.36.
The authority may ask the Pooled Money Investment Board for a loan or other interim financing, must keep the request within the amount of unsold bonds authorized for sale, must sign documents needed to obtain and repay the loan, and loaned money must be…
Section 1179.98.
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Source and current-law status
Source record view
Source record from leginfo.legislature.ca.gov · Enacted 1939
The source record does not state a definitive current-law status. Check the official publisher and later amendments before relying on this text.