(a) The California Health and Human Services Agency consists of the following departments: Aging; Community Services and Development; Developmental Services; Health Care Services; Managed Health Care; Public Health; Rehabilitation; Social Services; and State Hospitals.
(b) The agency also includes the Emergency Medical Services Authority, the Office of Health Information Integrity, the Office of Patient Advocate, the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the Office of Systems Integration, the Office of Law Enforcement Support, the Office of the Surgeon General, and the State Council on Developmental Disabilities.
(c) The Department of Child Support Services is hereby created within the agency and is the single organizational unit designated as the state’s Title IV-D agency with the responsibility for administering the state plan and providing services relating to the establishment of paternity or the establishment, modification, or enforcement of child support obligations as required by Section 654 of Title 42 of the United States Code. State plan functions shall be performed by other agencies as required by law, by delegation of the department, or by cooperative agreements.
(d) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2021, and, as of January 1, 2022, is repealed.
(Amended (as amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 38, Sec. 1) by Stats. 2020, Ch. 337, Sec. 2. (SB 823) Effective September 30, 2020. Section inoperative July 1, 2021. Repealed as of January 1, 2022, by its own provisions. See later operative version added by Sec. 4 of Stats. 2020, Ch. 337.)