Title 31, Chapter 6, Section 48
( 31-6-48)
The State Health Planning and Development Agency, the State-wide
Health Coordinating Council, and the State Health Planning Review
Board existing immediately prior to July 1, 1983, are abolished, and
their respective successors on and after July 1, 1983, shall be the
Health Planning Agency, the Health Policy Council, and the Health
Planning Review Board, as established in this chapter, except that
on and after July 1, 1991, the Health Strategies Council shall be
the successor to the Health Policy Council and except that on and
after July 1, 1999, the Department of Community Health shall be the
successor to the Health Planning Agency. For purposes of any
existing contract with the federal government, or federal law
referring to such abolished agency, council, or board, the successor
department, council, or board established in this chapter or in
Chapter 5A of this title shall be deemed to be the abolished agency,
council, or board and shall succeed to the abolished agency's,
council's, or board's functions. The State Health Planning and
Development Commission is abolished. |