Section 5 ILCS 315/5.1 - Dissolution of Illinois State Labor Relations Board and Illinois Local Labor Relations Board; transfer and savings provisions(a) The Illinois State Labor Relations Board is dissolved. The State Panel of the Illinois Labor Relations Board, created by this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly, shall succeed to all of the powers, duties, rights, and property, including contractual rights and obligations, of the Illinois State Labor Relations Board. Rules, procedures, and decisions of the Illinois State Labor Relations Board in effect at the time of its dissolution shall be deemed to be those of the State Panel of the Illinois Labor Relations Board. Matters pending before the Illinois State Labor Relations Board at the time of its dissolution shall continue as matters before the State Panel of the Illinois Labor Relations Board. The State Panel of the Illinois Labor Relations Board shall be deemed successor in interest to the Illinois State Labor Relations Board for the purposes of any pending litigation.(b) The Illinois Local Labor Relations Board is dissolved. The Local Panel of the Illinois Labor Relations Board, created by this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly, shall succeed to all of the powers, duties, rights, and property, including contractual rights and obligations, of the Illinois Local Labor Relations Board. Rules, procedures, and decisions of the Illinois Local Labor Relations Board in effect at the time of its dissolution shall be deemed to be those of the Local Panel of the Illinois Labor Relations Board. Matters pending before the Illinois Local Labor Relations Board at the time of its dissolution shall continue as matters before the Local Panel of the Illinois Labor Relations Board. The Local Panel of the Illinois Labor Relations Board shall be deemed successor in interest to the Illinois Local Labor Relations Board for the purposes of any pending litigation.(c) Rules and procedures adopted jointly by the Illinois State Labor Relations Board and the Illinois Local Labor Relations Board that are in effect at the time of the dissolution of those Boards shall be deemed to have been adopted jointly by the State and Local Panels of the Illinois Labor Relations Board.(d) Fiscal Year 2000 appropriations to the Illinois State Labor Relations Board and the Illinois Local Labor Relations Board may be expended by the Illinois Labor Relations Board.(e) Persons employed by the Illinois State Labor Relations Board or the Illinois Local Labor Relations Board on the date of the dissolution of those Boards shall thereupon become employees, respectively, of the State Panel or the Local Panel of the Illinois Labor Relations Board, without loss of seniority or accrued benefits. P.A. 91-798, eff. 7/9/2000.