Creation and authority (Repealed)

The department was established as an agency of the executive branch of state government by section 62 of Public Act No. 77-614, known as the Reorganization Act. The department is the successor agency of the former public works and personnel departments; it also has assumed certain functions of the former department of finance and control, such as responsibility for purchasing, data processing, and central collections, and other functions that formerly were dispersed throughout the executive branch.