Bill Text: IL HB2690 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Engrossed
Bill Title: Amends the Grade A Pasteurized Milk and Milk Products Act. Permits the sale and distribution of any milk or milk product for human use or consumption only if such milk or milk product has been produced and processed in accordance with rules adopted by the Department of Public Health. Requires the Department to adopt rules for the production and processing of unpasteurized milk or milk product. Provides that a seller or distributor is not liable for any injury caused to another person by that person's consumption of unpasteurized milk or milk product if that product has been produced and processed in accordance with the Department's rules.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 9-4)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-15 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [HB2690 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HB2690-Engrossed.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning health.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Grade A Pasteurized Milk and Milk Products | ||||||
| 5 | Act is amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
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| 6 | (410 ILCS 635/8) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 2208)
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| 7 | Sec. 8.
After the effective date of this Act, no person | ||||||
| 8 | shall sell
or distribute, offer to sell or distribute any milk | ||||||
| 9 | or milk product for
human use or consumption unless such milk | ||||||
| 10 | or milk product has been pasteurized
and has been produced and | ||||||
| 11 | processed in accordance with rules and regulations
promulgated | ||||||
| 12 | by the Department.
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| 13 | The term "sell or distribute for use or consumption" means | ||||||
| 14 | to sell or distribute
to a person for human use or consumption | ||||||
| 15 | and not for processing or resale in any form.
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| 16 | The pasteurization requirement of this Section shall not be | ||||||
| 17 | applicable
to the unpasteurized milk of a cow, goat, sheep, or | ||||||
| 18 | other hooved animal that is produced in accordance with | ||||||
| 19 | Department rules and regulations if
sold or distributed on the | ||||||
| 20 | premises of the dairy farm. The Department shall adopt rules | ||||||
| 21 | governing unpasteurized milk sold or distributed under this | ||||||
| 22 | Section.
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| 23 | (Source: P.A. 83-102.)
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