(a) The department shall contract with agencies approved pursuant to Section 127155 for the purpose of providing agencies with funds to assist them to perform the duties required of them by this chapter. The Advisory Health Council shall review and make recommendations to the department upon all contracts to be entered into under this section. The department shall prepare contracts upon information submitted by agencies in the form required by the department.
(b) Pending final approval by the department of the contracts, the department may advance funds to those area health planning agencies that the director determines require emergency assistance to carry out their functions under this chapter. This emergency funding authority shall expire July 1, 1977. After determining the emergency funding available to each area health planning agency, the department shall immediately notify the administrative body of each area health planning agency of the amount and the conditions governing its availability.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 9. Effective January 1, 1996.)