The Department of Central Management Services shall assume all rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities of the Department of Administrative Services and the Department of Personnel as the successor to those departments. The Department of Administrative Services, the Department of Personnel, and the Advisory Board to the Department of Personnel are abolished.
Personnel, books, records, papers, documents, property, real and personal, unexpended appropriations, and pending business in any way pertaining to the former Department of Administrative Services and the former Department of Personnel are transferred to the Department of Central Management Services, but any rights of employees or the State under the Personnel Code or any other contract or plan shall be unaffected by this transfer. No rule or regulation promulgated by the former Department of Administrative Services or the former Department of Personnel pursuant to an exercise of any right, power, duty, or responsibility transferred to the Department of Central Management Services shall be affected by Public Act 82-789, and all such rules and regulations shall become the rules and regulations of the Department of Central Management Services.
20 ILCS 405/405-400