Illinois House Bill 1486 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 29 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Provides that a person who willfully or maliciously tortures, mutilates, injures, disables, poisons, or kills any animal used by a law enforcement department or agency in the performance of the functions or duties of the department or agency of when placed off duty, any service animal, any search and rescue dog, any law enforcement, service, or search and rescue animal in training, or any accelerant detection canine used by a fire officer for arson investigations in the performance of his or her functions or while off duty, if the animal is not killed or totally disabled, the person is guilty of a Class 3 felony, and if the animal is killed or totally disabled, the person is guilty of a Class 2 felony. Provides that a person who kills or severely injures any animal used by a law enforcement department or agency in the performance of the functions or duties of the department or agency of when placed off duty, any service animal, any search and rescue dog, any law enforcement, service, or search and rescue animal in training, or any accelerant detection canine used by a fire officer for arson investigations in the performance of his or her functions or while off duty, while he or she is in the commission of a felony, is guilty of a Class 2 felony. Provides that if the offender is found guilty, the offender shall is responsible for any veterinarian bills for the animal that was injured and training costs for another animal, if the animal injured or killed is no longer able to be in service. Makes other changes.

ANIMALS-POLICE AND SERVICE

Rep. Tony McCombie [R]	Rep. Jonathan Carroll [D]	Rep. Tom Weber [R]	Sen. Michael Halpin [D]
Rep. Terra Costa Howard [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-29	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2019-03-04	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Terra Costa Howard
2019-02-21	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael Halpin
2019-02-21	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Tom Weber
2019-02-19	House	To Sentencing, Penalities and Criminal Procedure Subcommittee
2019-02-19	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Jonathan Carroll
2019-02-13	House	Assigned to Judiciary - Criminal Committee
2019-02-01	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2019-02-01	House	First Reading
2019-01-29	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Tony McCombie

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
510	70	4.04	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1486&GAID=15&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=108&GA=101
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/101/HB/10100HB1486.htm