On and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly:
     (a) All powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities of the Legislative Research Unit are transferred to the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability. Any reference in any law, rule, form, or other document to the Legislative Research Unit is deemed to be a reference to the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.

Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 25 ILCS 155/7

  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • State: when applied to different parts of the United States, may be construed to include the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14

     (b) All powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities of the Executive Director of the Legislative Research Unit are transferred to the Executive Director of the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability. Any reference in any law, appropriation, rule, form, or other document to the Executive Director of the Legislative Research Unit is deemed to be a reference to the Executive Director of the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability for all purposes.
     (c) All personnel of the Legislative Research Unit are transferred to the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability. The status and rights of the transferred personnel under the Personnel Code, the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act, and applicable collective bargaining agreements or under any pension, retirement, or annuity plan shall not be affected by this Section.
     (d) All books, records, papers, documents, property (real and personal), contracts, causes of action, and pending business of the Legislative Research Unit shall be transferred to the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.
     (e) All unexpended appropriations and balances and other funds available for use by the Legislative Research Unit shall be transferred for use by the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability. Unexpended balances so transferred shall be expended only for the purpose for which the appropriations were originally made.
     (f) The powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities of the Legislative Research Unit with respect to the personnel transferred under this Section shall be vested in and shall be exercised by the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.
     (g) Whenever reports or notices are now required to be made or given or papers or documents furnished or served by any person to or upon the Legislative Research Unit, the same shall be made, given, furnished, or served in the same manner to or upon the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.
     (h) Any rules of the Legislative Research Unit that are in full force on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly shall become the rules of the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability. This Section does not affect the legality of any such rules in the Illinois Administrative Code.
     (i) Any proposed rules filed with the Secretary of State by the Legislative Research Unit that are pending in the rulemaking process on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, and that pertain to the powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities transferred under this Section, shall be deemed to have been filed by the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability. As soon as practicable, the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability shall revise and clarify the rules transferred to it under this Section using the procedures for recodification of rules available under the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, except that existing title, part, and section numbering for the affected rules may be retained. The Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability may propose and adopt under the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act such other rules of the Legislative Research Unit that will now be administered by the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.