(215 ILCS 105/17)
    Sec. 17. Transfer of the Illinois Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan.
    (a) Upon entry of an Order of Rehabilitation or Liquidation against the Plan all powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities of the Plan and the Board shall be transferred to and vested in the Director, as rehabilitator or liquidator, who is authorized to wind down the affairs of the Plan in accordance with Article XIII of the Illinois Insurance Code.
    (b) The Director, as rehabilitator or liquidator, shall act on behalf of the Plan and the Board and shall have the power and duty to receive and answer correspondence, and shall evaluate all claims that are timely filed in the rehabilitation or liquidation proceedings and is authorized to make distribution from any unencumbered funds of the Plan's rehabilitation or liquidation estate upon all such claims as are allowed in the proceedings consistent with subsection (1) of Section 205 of the Illinois Insurance Code. Timely filed claims of vendors allowed in the rehabilitation or liquidation proceedings that are not capable of being discharged, in full, from the assets of the rehabilitation or liquidation estate may be presented to the Court of Claims.
    (c) 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 102nd General Assembly from the Plan and the Board to the Director, as rehabilitator or liquidator, including, but not limited to, material in electronic or magnetic format and necessary computer hardware and software, shall be transferred to the Director, as rehabilitator or liquidator. Records shall be maintained as required by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as now or hereafter amended, unless otherwise ordered by the court supervising the rehabilitation or liquidation proceedings.
    (d) The rights of the employees in 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 102nd General Assembly.
    (e) Upon entry of an Order of Rehabilitation or Liquidation against the Plan, all unexpended appropriations and balances and other funds available for use by the Plan and the Board shall be transferred to and vested in the Director, as rehabilitator or liquidator. Except as provided in subsection (l) of Section 16, unexpended balances so transferred shall be distributed in accordance with Article XIII of the Illinois Insurance Code for paying the Director's administrative expenses incurred in connection with winding down the affairs of the Plan.
    (f) Whenever reports or notices are, on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly, required to be made or given or papers or documents furnished or served by any person to or upon the Plan or the Board in connection with any of the powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities transferred by this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly, the same shall be made, given, furnished, or served in the same manner to or upon the Director, as rehabilitator or liquidator.
    (g) This amendatory Act of the 102nd 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 the administrative, civil, or criminal cause by the Plan or the Board prior to the entry of an Order of Rehabilitation or Liquidation against the Plan; such actions or proceedings may be prosecuted and continued by the Director, as rehabilitator or liquidator.
(Source: P.A. 102-159, eff. 7-23-21.)