(a) Except as provided in Section 131055.2, the State Department of Health Care Services shall succeed to and be vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, functions, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the former State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs.

(b) Any reference in statute, regulation, or contract to the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs or the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Abuse shall refer to the State Department of Health Care Services to the extent that they relate to the transfer of duties, powers, purposes, functions, responsibilities, and jurisdiction made pursuant to this section.

(c) A contract, lease, license, or any other agreement to which the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs is a party shall not be made void or voidable by reason of the act that enacted this section, but shall continue in full force and effect with the State Department of Health Care Services assuming all of the rights, obligations, and duties of the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs with respect to the transfer of duties, powers, purposes, functions, responsibilities, and jurisdiction made pursuant to this section.

(d) (1) All unexpended balances of appropriations and other funds available for use by the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs in connection with any function or the administration of any law transferred to the State Department of Health Care Services pursuant to the act that enacted this section shall be available for use by the State Department of Health Care Services for the purpose for which the appropriation was originally made or the funds were originally available.

(2) The State Department of Health Care Services may, until July 1, 2017, liquidate the prior years’ encumbrances previously obligated by the former State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs. The Controller shall transfer the following Budget Act appropriations from the former State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to the State Department of Health Care Services for use by the State Department of Health Care Services to liquidate the prior years’ encumbrances previously obligated by the former State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs:

(A) Items 4200-001-0001, 4200-001-0139, 4200-001-0243, 4200-001-0816, 4200-001-0890, 4200-001-3113, 4200-101-0001, 4200-101-0890, 4200-102-0001, 4200-103-0001, 4200-104-0001, and 4200-104-0890 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2011 (Chapter 33 of the Statutes of 2011).

(B) Items 4200-001-0001, 4200-001-0139, 4200-001-0243, 4200-001-0816, 4200-001-0890, 4200-001-3113, 4200-101-0001, 4200-101-0890, 4200-104-0001, and 4200-104-0890 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2012 (Chapter 21 of the Statutes of 2012).

(e) All books, documents, forms, records, data systems, and property of the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs with respect to the transfer of duties, powers, purposes, functions, responsibilities, and jurisdiction made pursuant to this section shall be transferred to the State Department of Health Care Services.

(f) Positions filled by appointment by the Governor in the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs whose principal assignment was to perform functions transferred pursuant to this section shall be transferred to the State Department of Health Care Services.

(g) All employees serving in state civil service, other than temporary employees, who are engaged in the performance of functions transferred pursuant to this section, are transferred to the State Department of Health Care Services pursuant to the provisions of Section 19050.9 of the Government Code. The status, position, and rights of those persons shall not be affected by their transfer and shall continue to be retained by them pursuant to the State Civil Service Act (Part 2 (commencing with Section 18500) of Division 5 of Title 2 of the Government Code), except as to positions the duties of which are vested in a position exempt from civil service. The personnel records of all employees transferred pursuant to this section shall be transferred to the State Department of Health Care Services.

(h) Any regulation or other action adopted, prescribed, taken, or performed by an agency or officer in the administration of a program or the performance of a duty, power, purpose, function, or responsibility pursuant to this division or Division 10.6 (commencing with Section 11998) in effect prior to July 1, 2013, shall remain in effect unless or until amended, and shall be deemed to be a regulation or action of the agency to which or officer to whom the program, duty, power, purpose, function, responsibility, or jurisdiction is assigned pursuant to this section.

(i) A suit, action, or other proceeding lawfully commenced by or against any agency or other officer of the state, in relation to the administration of any program or the discharge of any duty, power, purpose, function, or responsibility transferred pursuant to this section, shall not abate by reason of the transfer of the program, duty, power, purpose, function, or responsibility under that section.

(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 71, Sec. 89. (SB 1304) Effective January 1, 2015.)