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15 ILCS 15/3.1 (2026)

"Agency directly responsible to the Governor" or "agency" means any office, officer, division, or part thereof, and any other office, nonelective officer, department, division, bureau, board, or commission in the executive branch of State government, except that it does not apply to any agency whose primary function is service to the General Assembly or the Judicial Branch of State government, or to any agency administered by the Attorney General, Secretary of State, State Comptroller or State Treasurer

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(15 ILCS 15/3.1)
    Sec. 3.1. "Agency directly responsible to the Governor" or "agency" means any office, officer, division, or part thereof, and any other office, nonelective officer, department, division, bureau, board, or commission in the executive branch of State government, except that it does not apply to any agency whose primary function is service to the General Assembly or the Judicial Branch of State government, or to any agency administered by the Attorney General, Secretary of State, State Comptroller or State Treasurer. In addition the term does not apply to the following agencies created by law with the primary responsibility of exercising regulatory or adjudicatory functions independently of the Governor:
    (1) the State Board of Elections;
    (2) the State Board of Education;
    (3) the Illinois Commerce Commission;
    (4) the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission;
    (5) the Civil Service Commission;
    (6) the Fair Employment Practices Commission;
    (7) the Pollution Control Board;
    (8) the Illinois State Police Merit Board;
    (9) the Illinois Racing Board;
    (10) the Illinois Power Agency;
    (11) the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board; and
    (12) the Illinois Liquor Control Commission.
(Source: P.A. 101-81, eff. 7-12-19; 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 2015–2015 · leading case: Dep't of Cent. Mgmt. Servs./The Illinois Com. Comm'n v. Illinois Labor Relations Bd., State Panel, 2015 IL App (4th) 131022 (Ill. App. Ct. 2015).
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Dep't of Cent. Mgmt. Servs./The Illinois Com. Comm'n v. Illinois Labor Relations Bd., State Panel, 2015 IL App (4th) 131022 (Ill. App. Ct. 2015). · cites it 3× “1 of the Executive Reorganization Implementation Act (15 ILCS 15/3.1 (West 2012)) clearly provides the three agencies at issue do not directly report to the Governor, and section 3(q-5) of the Labor Act does not alter that fact.”
The Dep't of Cent. Mgmt. Servs. v. The Illinois Labor Relations Bd., 2015 IL App (4th) 131022 (Ill. App. Ct. 2015). · cites it 4× “1 of the Executive Reorganization Implementation Act (15 ILCS 15/3.1 (West 2012)) clearly provides the three agencies at issue do not directly report to the Governor, and section 3(q-5) of the Labor Act does not alter that fact.”
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