Bill Text: IL HB0541 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Provides that a person may not willfully and maliciously permit a dog that is owned, harbored, or controlled by the person to cause injury to or the death of a guide, hearing, or support dog (rather than while the guide, hearing, or support dog is in the discharge of its duties). Provides that a person may not recklessly permit a dog that is owned, harbored, or controlled by the person to cause injury to or the death of a guide, hearing, or support dog. Provides that a person convicted of the reckless offense is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor if the dog is killed or totally disabled, and may be ordered by the court to make restitution to the person with a disability having custody or ownership of the dog for veterinary bills and replacement costs of the dog. Provides that a second or subsequent violation of this offense is a Class 4 felony if the dog is killed or totally disabled, and the person convicted may be ordered by the court to make restitution to the person with a disability having custody or ownership of the dog for veterinary bill and replacement costs of the dog. Provides that a person convicted of this offense is guilty of a petty offense if the dog is not killed or totally disabled.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0541 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB0541-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB0541 Introduced 1/24/2017, by Rep. Kelly M. Burke SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
510 ILCS 70/7.15
Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Provides that a person may not willfully and maliciously permit a dog that is owned, harbored, or controlled by the person to cause injury to or the death of a guide, hearing, or support dog (rather than while the guide, hearing, or support dog is in the discharge of its duties). Provides that a person may not recklessly permit a dog that is owned, harbored, or controlled by the person to cause injury to or the death of a guide, hearing, or support dog. Provides that a person convicted of the reckless offense is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor if the dog is killed or totally disabled, and may be ordered by the court to make restitution to the person with a disability having custody or ownership of the dog for veterinary bills and replacement costs of the dog. Provides that a second or subsequent violation of this offense is a Class 4 felony if the dog is killed or totally disabled, and the person convicted may be ordered by the court to make restitution to the person with a disability having custody or ownership of the dog for veterinary bill and replacement costs of the dog. Provides that a person convicted of this offense is guilty of a petty offense if the dog is not killed or totally disabled.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning animals.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Humane Care for Animals Act is amended by
changing Section 7.15 as follows:
(510 ILCS 70/7.15)
Sec. 7.15. Guide, hearing, and support dogs.
(a) A person may not willfully and maliciously annoy,
taunt, tease, harass, torment, beat, or strike a guide,
hearing, or support dog or otherwise engage in any conduct
directed toward a guide, hearing, or support dog that is likely
to impede or interfere with the dog's performance of its duties
or that places the blind, hearing impaired, or person with a
physical disability being served or assisted by the dog in
danger of injury.
(b) A person may not willfully and maliciously torture,
injure, or kill a guide, hearing, or support dog.
(c) A person may not willfully and maliciously permit a dog
that is owned, harbored, or controlled by the person to cause
injury to or the death of a guide, hearing, or support dog
while the guide, hearing, or support dog is in discharge of its
duties.
(c-5) A person may not recklessly permit a dog that is

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owned, harbored, or controlled by the person to cause injury to
or the death of a guide, hearing, or support dog.
(d) A person convicted of violating this Section is guilty
of a Class A misdemeanor. A second or subsequent violation is a
Class 4 felony. A person convicted of violating subsection (b)
or (c) of this Section is guilty of a Class 4 felony if the dog
is killed or totally disabled, and may be ordered by the court
to make restitution to the person with a disability having
custody or ownership of the dog for veterinary bills and
replacement costs of the dog. A person convicted of violating
subsection (c-5) of this Section is guilty of a petty offense
if the dog is not killed or totally disabled. A person
convicted of violating subsection (c-5) of this Section is
guilty of a Class C misdemeanor if the dog is killed or totally
disabled, and may be ordered by the court to make restitution
to the person with a disability having custody or ownership of
the dog for veterinary bills and replacement costs of the dog.
A person convicted of a second or subsequent violation of
subsection (c-5) of this Section is guilty of a Class 4 felony
if the dog is killed or totally disabled, and may be ordered by
the court to make restitution to the person with a disability
having custody or ownership of the dog for veterinary bill and
replacement costs of the dog.
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)