Bill Text: IL HB5477 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Engrossed
Bill Title: Amends the Animal Welfare Act. Provides that, as part of its annual renewal application, an animal shelter or animal control facility must report to the Department of Agriculture specific information concerning dogs and cats received from another state or country and specific information concerning disposition and manner of transfer of all dogs and cats that leave its facilities. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5477 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB5477-Engrossed.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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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 Animal Welfare Act is amended by changing | ||||||
5 | Section 7 as follows:
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6 | (225 ILCS 605/7) (from Ch. 8, par. 307)
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7 | Sec. 7.
(a) Applications for renewal licenses shall be made | ||||||
8 | to the
Department, shall be in writing on forms prescribed by | ||||||
9 | the
Department, shall contain such information as will enable | ||||||
10 | the Department
to determine if the applicant is qualified to | ||||||
11 | continue to hold a license
and shall be accompanied by the | ||||||
12 | required fee, which shall not be
returnable. | ||||||
13 | (b) As part of its annual renewal application, an animal | ||||||
14 | shelter or animal control facility shall report beginning | ||||||
15 | inventory and intake and outcome statistics from the previous | ||||||
16 | calendar year. The report of intake and outcome statistics | ||||||
17 | shall include the following:
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18 | (1) The total number of dogs, cats, and other animals, | ||||||
19 | divided into species, taken in by the animal shelter or | ||||||
20 | animal control facility, in the following categories: | ||||||
21 | (a) surrendered by owner; | ||||||
22 | (b) stray; | ||||||
23 | (c) impounded other than stray; |
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1 | (d) confiscated under the Humane Care for Animals | ||||||
2 | Act; | ||||||
3 | (e) transferred from other licensees within | ||||||
4 | Illinois; | ||||||
5 | (f) transferred into or imported from outside | ||||||
6 | Illinois; | ||||||
7 | (g) transferred into or imported from outside the | ||||||
8 | United States; | ||||||
9 | (h) born in the shelter or animal control facility. | ||||||
10 | (2) The total number of dogs, cats, or other animals, | ||||||
11 | divided by species, that leave its facilities, in the | ||||||
12 | following categories: | ||||||
13 | (a) returned to owners; | ||||||
14 | (b) placed or sold; | ||||||
15 | (c) euthanized; | ||||||
16 | (d) euthanized at the owner's request; | ||||||
17 | (e) died in custody; | ||||||
18 | (f) transferred to another licensed animal shelter | ||||||
19 | or animal control facility within the State; | ||||||
20 | (g) transferred to an out-of-state non-profit | ||||||
21 | animal shelter or facility; | ||||||
22 | (h) missing, stolen, or escaped; | ||||||
23 | (i) released in field or put into a program under | ||||||
24 | which animals are trapped, neutered, and released; and | ||||||
25 | (3) The ending inventory or shelter count per species | ||||||
26 | at the end of the last day of the year. |
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1 | (Source: P.A. 81-198.)
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2 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January | ||||||
3 | 1, 2019.
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