(a) As soon as possible after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1992, the Legislative Reference Bureau shall file with the Index Division of the Office of the Secretary of State, the General Assembly, the Governor, and the Supreme Court a compilation of the general Acts of Illinois. At that time and at any other time the Legislative Reference Bureau may file with the Index Division of the Office of the Secretary of State cross-reference tables comparing the compilation and the Illinois Revised Statutes. The Legislative Reference Bureau shall provide copies of the documents that are filed to each individual or entity that delivers a written request for copies to the Legislative Reference Bureau; the Legislative Reference Bureau, by resolution, may establish and charge a reasonable fee for providing copies. The compilation shall take effect on January 1, 1993. The compilation shall be cited as the “Illinois Compiled Statutes” or as “ILCS”. The Illinois Compiled Statutes, including the statutes themselves and the organizational and numbering scheme, shall be an official compilation of the general Acts of Illinois and shall be entirely in the public domain for purposes of federal copyright law.
     (b) The compilation document that is filed under subsection (a) shall divide the general Acts into major topic areas and into chapters within those areas; the document shall list the general Acts by title or short title, but need not contain the text of the statutes or specify individual Sections of Acts. Chapters shall be numbered. Each Act shall be assigned to a chapter and shall be ordered within that chapter. An Act prefix number shall be designated for each Act within each chapter. Chapters may be divided into subheadings. Citation to a section of ILCS shall be in the form “X ILCS Y/Z(A)”, where X is the chapter number, Y is the Act prefix number, Z is the Section number of the Act, Y/Z is the section number in the chapter of ILCS, and A is the year of publication, if applicable.
     (c) The Legislative Reference Bureau shall make additions, deletions, and changes to the organizational or numbering scheme of the Illinois Compiled Statutes by filing appropriate documents with the Index Division of the Office of the Secretary of State. The Legislative Reference Bureau shall also provide copies of the documents that are filed to each individual or entity that delivers a written request for copies to the Legislative Reference Bureau; the Legislative Reference Bureau, by resolution, may establish and charge a reasonable fee for providing copies. The additions, deletions, and changes to the organizational or numbering scheme of the Illinois Compiled Statutes shall take effect 30 days after filing with the Index Division.
     (d) Omission of an effective Act or Section of an Act from ILCS does not alter the effectiveness of that Act or Section. Inclusion of a repealed Act or Section of an Act in ILCS does not affect the repeal of that Act or Section.
     (e) In order to allow for an efficient transition to the organizational and numbering scheme of the Illinois Compiled Statutes, the State, units of local government, school districts, and other governmental entities may, for a reasonable period of time, continue to use forms, computer software, systems, and data, published rules, and any other electronically stored information and printed documents that contain references to the Illinois Revised Statutes. However, reports of criminal, traffic, and other offenses and violations that are part of a state-wide reporting system shall continue to be made by reference to the Illinois Revised Statutes until July 1, 1994, and on and after that date shall be made by reference to the Illinois Compiled Statutes, except that an earlier conversion date may be established by agreement among all of the following: the Supreme Court, the Secretary of State, the Director of State Police, the Circuit Clerk of Cook County, and the Circuit Clerk of DuPage County, or the designee of each. References to the Illinois Revised Statutes are deemed to be references to the corresponding provisions of the Illinois Compiled Statutes.
     (f) The Legislative Reference Bureau, with the assistance of the Legislative Information System, shall make its electronically stored database of the statutes and the compilation available in an electronically stored medium to those who request it; the Legislative Reference Bureau, by resolution, shall establish and charge a reasonable fee for providing the information.
     (g) Amounts received under this Section shall be deposited into the General Assembly Computer Equipment Revolving Fund.
     (h) The Legislative Reference Bureau shall select subjects and chapters of the statutory law that it considers most in need of a revision and present to the next regular session of the General Assembly bills covering those revisions. In connection with those revisions, the Legislative Reference Bureau has full authority and responsibility to recommend the revision, simplification, and rearrangement of existing statutory law and the elimination from that law of obsolete, superseded, duplicated, and unconstitutional statutes or parts of statutes, but shall make no other changes in the substance of existing statutes, except to the extent those changes in substance are necessary for coherent revision, simplification, rearrangement, or elimination. Revisions reported to the General Assembly may be accompanied by explanatory statements of changes in existing statutes or parts of statutes that those revisions, if enacted, would effect.