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		<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Patterson</ns0:AuthorText>
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		<ns0:Title>An act to add Division 110.5 (commencing with Section 130350) to the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health.</ns0:Title>
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			<ns0:Subject>California Workgroup on Functional, Hormonal, Integrative, and Metabolic Health.</ns0:Subject>
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			<html:p>Existing law establishes the California Health and Human Services Agency, also known as CalHHS, which includes the State Department of Public Health, the State Department of Health Care Services, and the State Department of Social Services, among other state departments and offices. Under existing law, CalHHS is charged with the administration of health, social, and other human services. </html:p>
			<html:p>This bill would require CalHHS to convene a workgroup to explore the use and effectiveness of functional, hormonal, integrative, and metabolic health and medicine. The bill would require the workgroup to meet at least four times a year and report any findings to the
			 Senate Health and Human Services Committee and the Assembly Health Committee.</html:p>
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		<ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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				Division 110.5 (commencing with Section 130350) is added to the 
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				, to read:
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									(a)
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									The California Health and Humans Services Agency shall convene a workgroup to explore the use and effectiveness of functional, hormonal, integrative, and metabolic health and medicine.
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									The workgroup shall meet at least four times a year and report any findings to the Senate Health and Human Services Committee and the Assembly Health Committee.
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