Bill Text: IL SB0154 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person commits unlawful use of an animal (currently, this provision only covers elephants) in a traveling animal act when he or she knowingly allows for the participation of an animal in a traveling animal act. Unlawful use of an animal in a traveling animal act is a Class A misdemeanor. Defines "animal". Effective July 1, 2019.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB0154 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB0154-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB0154 Introduced 1/29/2019, by Sen. Linda Holmes SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/48-11
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person commits unlawful use of an animal (currently, this provision only covers elephants) in a traveling animal act when he or she knowingly allows for the participation of an animal in a traveling animal act. Unlawful use of an animal in a traveling animal act is a Class A misdemeanor. Defines "animal". Effective July 1, 2019.
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing
Section 48-11 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/48-11)
Sec. 48-11. Unlawful use of an animal elephant in a
traveling animal act.
(a) Definitions. As used in this Section:
"Animal" means any of the following including a hybrid
thereof:
(1) bear;
(2) cougar;
(3) elephant;
(4) giraffe;
(5) grey kangaroo;
(6) hippopotamus;
(7) jaguar;
(8) leopard, excluding a clouded leopard;
(9) lion;
(10) non-human primate;
(11) red kangaroo;
(12) rhinoceros;

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(13) tapir;
(14) tiger; or
(15) zebra.
"Mobile or traveling animal housing facility" means a
transporting vehicle such as a truck, trailer, or railway car
used to transport or house animals while traveling to an
exhibition or other performance.
"Performance" means an exhibition, public showing,
presentation, display, exposition, fair, animal act, circus,
ride, trade show, petting zoo, carnival, parade, race, or other
similar undertaking in which animals are required to perform
tricks, give rides, or participate as accompaniments for
entertainment, amusement, or benefit of a live audience.
"Traveling animal act" means any performance of animals
where animals are transported to, from, or between locations
for the purpose of a performance in a mobile or traveling
animal housing facility.
(b) A person commits unlawful use of an animal elephant in
a traveling animal act when he or she knowingly allows for the
participation of an animal African elephant (Loxodonta
africana) or Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) protected under
the federal Endangered Species Act of 1973 in a traveling
animal act.
(c) This Section does not apply to an exhibition of animals
elephants at a non-mobile, permanent institution, or other
facility.

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(d) Sentence. Unlawful use of an animal elephant in a
traveling animal act is a Class A misdemeanor.
(Source: P.A. 100-90, eff. 1-1-18.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
2019.