The Legislature finds that funds available to the office, the health systems agencies, and the area health planning agencies for the implementation of this chapter may prevent the office, the health systems agencies and the area health planning agencies from fully complying with their statutorily mandated functions.
In the event that the health systems agencies lose all, or substantially all, federal funding that is not replaced by other funding at a level that allows them to fulfill their major responsibilities under this chapter and in order to ensure continuity of the certificate-of-need process, the Governor is hereby authorized to request that the Secretary for Health and Human Services eliminate federal designation and funding of some or all health systems agencies located within the state and to terminate some or all duties assigned to area health system planning agencies and to assign the office to conduct some or all functions heretofore designated to the health systems agencies and area health planning agencies.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 9. Effective January 1, 1996.)