Bill Text: IL HB2998 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Diseased Animals Act. Deletes a provision providing that all rules of the Department of Agriculture, and all amendments or revocations of existing rules, shall be recorded in an appropriate book or books, shall be adequately indexed, shall be kept in the office of the Department, and shall constitute a public record and that the rules shall be printed in pamphlet form and furnished, upon request, to the public free of cost. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2017-08-15 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0111 [HB2998 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB2998-Enrolled.html

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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 Illinois Diseased Animals Act is amended by
changing Section 2 as follows:
(510 ILCS 50/2) (from Ch. 8, par. 169)
Sec. 2. Duty to investigate; rulemaking. It is the duty of
the Department to investigate all cases or alleged cases coming
to its knowledge of contamination or contagious and infectious
diseases among animals within the State and to provide for the
suppression, prevention, and extirpation of contamination or
infectious and contagious diseases of such animals.
The Department may make and adopt reasonable rules and
regulations for the administration and enforcement of the
provisions of this Act. No rule or regulation made, adopted or
issued by the Department pursuant to the provisions of this Act
shall be effective unless such rule or regulation has been
submitted to the Advisory Board of Livestock Commissioners for
approval. The Department shall maintain on its website access
to the Department's rules under this Act. All rules of the
Department, and all amendments or revocations of existing
rules, shall be recorded in an appropriate book or books, shall
be adequately indexed, shall be kept in the office of the

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Department, and shall constitute a public record. Such rules
shall be printed in pamphlet form and furnished, upon request,
to the public free of cost.
(Source: P.A. 95-179, eff. 8-14-07; 95-554, eff. 8-30-07.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.