(a) The rules and standards of the Department’s predecessor agencies that are in effect on June 30, 1997 and pertain to the rights, powers, duties, and functions transferred to the Department under this Act shall become the rules and standards of the Department of Human Services on July 1, 1997 and shall continue in effect until amended or repealed by the Department.
     (b) Any rules pertaining to the rights, powers, duties, and functions transferred to the Department under this Act that have been proposed by a predecessor agency but have not taken effect or been finally adopted by June 30, 1997 shall become proposed rules of the Department of Human Services on July 1, 1997, and any rulemaking procedures that have already been completed by the predecessor agency for those proposed rules need not be repeated.

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     (c) As soon as practical after July 1, 1997, the Department of Human Services shall revise and clarify the rules transferred to it under this Act to reflect the reorganization of rights, powers, duties, and functions effected by this 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 may propose and adopt under the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act such other rules as may be necessary to consolidate and clarify the rules of the agencies reorganized by this Act.