Section 100100.

There is in the state government in the California Health and Human Services Agency, a State Department of Health Services which, effective July 1, 2007, is hereby renamed the State Department of Health Care Services. Commencing July 1, 2007, any reference in this chapter, in Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 100145), or in Article 1 (commencing with Section 100150) of Chapter 2 to the State Department of Health Services is deemed to, instead, refer to the State Department of Health Care Services with regard to functions not transferred to the State Department of Public Health. Commencing July 1, 2007, all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the former State Department of Health Services not vested in the State Department of Public Health pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 131050) of Part 1 of Division 112, shall be retained by, and thereafter be performed by, the renamed State Department of Health Care Services.

(Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 241, Sec. 13. Effective January 1, 2007. Operative July 1, 2007, by Sec. 37 of Ch. 241.)