Bill Title: Amends the Animal Welfare Act. Provides that high volume breeders shall comply with specified requirements for each dog that is kept, housed, and maintained by the breeder, including enclosure size and standards, food and water standards, medical care standards, and exercise and enrichment standards. Requires the Department of Agriculture to adopt rules that require high volume breeders to keep and maintain a record of veterinary care for each dog kept, housed, and maintained by the high volume breeder. Requires a dog broker or pet shop operator that seeks to purchase a dog from a high volume breeder, or an out-of-state dog breeder that would be a high volume breeder if located in this State, to request the breeder to sign a specified document stating that the breeder is in compliance with the standards applicable to high volume breeders. Defines terms. Makes other changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5448 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

---

PolitiCorps Conversations

Start PolitiCorps Debate

Title	PolitiCorps	Access	Comments	Views	Last Post
There are no visible public or private PolitiCorps discussions concerning the 2019 Illinois HB5448 at this time.

Social Comments on IL HB5448