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 “removal action work plan” is a plan prepared or approved by the department or a regional board to carry out a removal action, protect public health and safety and the environment, and include specified content.
Section 78130.
The department must set procedures to keep trade secret information tied to its responsibilities and prevent other disclosure without the provider’s consent.
Section 78490.
The department may use reserve-account money only for immediate corrective action for hazardous-substance emergencies, and it may use written or limited oral contracts to carry out that work.
Section 78875.
Remedial action plans must follow specified federal and state cleanup standards and must be based on listed factors.
Section 79205.
Punitive damages may not be recovered under Section 79570 for damage to natural resources that happened entirely before September 25, 1981.
Section 79580.
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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.