Purpose

The purpose of the Health Care Authority Act is to establish a single, unified department to administer laws and exercise functions relating to health facility licensure and health care purchasing and regulation. History: 1978 Comp., § 9-8-3, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 252, § 3; 1979, ch. 203, § 7; 1979, ch. 204, § 1; 1979, ch. 280, § 1; 1981, ch. 88, § 1; 2023, ch. 205, § 3; 2024, ch. 39, § 3.