(20 ILCS 1605/29)
    Sec. 29. The Department of the Lottery.
    (a) Executive Order No. 2003-09 is hereby superseded by this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly to the extent that Executive Order No. 2003-09 transfers the powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities of the Department of the Lottery to the Division of the Lottery within the Department of Revenue.
    (b) The Division of the Lottery within the Department of Revenue is hereby abolished and the Department of the Lottery is created as an independent department. On the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, all powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities of the Division of the Lottery within the Department of Revenue shall be transferred to the Department of the Lottery.
    (c) The personnel of the Division of the Lottery within the Department of Revenue shall be transferred to the Department of the Lottery. The status and rights of such employees under the Personnel Code shall not be affected by the transfer. The rights of the employees and the State of Illinois and its agencies under the Personnel Code and applicable collective bargaining agreements or under any pension, retirement, or annuity plan shall not be affected by this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly. To the extent that an employee performs duties for the Division of the Lottery within the Department of Revenue and the Department of Revenue itself or any other division or agency within the Department of Revenue, that employee shall be transferred at the Governor's discretion.
    (d) All books, records, papers, documents, property (real and personal), contracts, causes of action, and pending business pertaining to the powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities transferred by this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly from the Division of the Lottery within the Department of Revenue to the Department of the Lottery, including, but not limited to, material in electronic or magnetic format and necessary computer hardware and software, shall be transferred to the Department of the Lottery.
    (e) All unexpended appropriations and balances and other funds available for use by the Division of the Lottery within the Department of Revenue shall be transferred for use by the Department of the Lottery pursuant to the direction of the Governor. Unexpended balances so transferred shall be expended only for the purpose for which the appropriations were originally made.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 transferred from the Division of the Lottery within the Department of Revenue by this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly shall be vested in and shall be exercised by the Department of the Lottery.
    (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 Division of the Lottery within the Department of Revenue in connection with any of the powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities transferred by this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, the same shall be made, given, furnished, or served in the same manner to or upon the Department of the Lottery.
    (h) This amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly does not affect any act done, ratified, or canceled or any right occurring or established or any action or proceeding had or commenced in an administrative, civil, or criminal cause by the Division of the Lottery within the Department of Revenue before this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly takes effect; such actions or proceedings may be prosecuted and continued by the Department of the Lottery.
    (i) Any rules of the Division of the Lottery within the Department of Revenue, including any rules of its predecessor Department of the Lottery, that relate to its powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities and are in full force on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly shall become the rules of the recreated Department of the Lottery. This amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly does not affect the legality of any such rules in the Illinois Administrative Code.
    Any proposed rules filed with the Secretary of State by the Division of the Lottery within the Department of Revenue that are pending in the rulemaking process on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly and pertain to the powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities transferred, shall be deemed to have been filed by the Department of the Lottery. As soon as practicable hereafter, the Department of the Lottery shall revise and clarify the rules transferred to it under this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly to reflect the reorganization of powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities affected by this amendatory Act, 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 Department of the Lottery may propose and adopt under the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act such other rules of the Division of the Lottery within the Department of Revenue that will now be administered by the Department of the Lottery.
    To the extent that, prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, the Superintendent of the Division of the Lottery within the Department of Revenue had been empowered to prescribe rules or had other rulemaking authority jointly with the Director of the Department of Revenue with regard to the powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities of the Division of the Lottery within the Department of Revenue, such duties shall be exercised from and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly solely by the Superintendent or Director of the Department of the Lottery.
(Source: P.A. 97-464, eff. 10-15-11; 97-813, eff. 7-13-12; 98-499, eff. 8-16-13.)