Bill Text: IL HB4590 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Amends the Animal Welfare Act. Provides that an animal shelter or animal control facility may (rather than shall) waive the adoption fee for a dog or cat if the person adopting the dog or cat is a veteran and meets specified criteria.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-07-19 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0678 [HB4590 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB4590-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Amends the Animal Welfare Act. Provides that an animal shelter or animal control facility may (rather than shall) waive the adoption fee for a dog or cat if the person adopting the dog or cat is a veteran and meets specified criteria.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-07-19 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0678 [HB4590 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB4590-Introduced.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, | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Animal Welfare Act is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Section 3.3 as follows:
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6 | (225 ILCS 605/3.3) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 3.3. Adoption of dogs and cats. | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | (a) An animal shelter or animal control facility shall not | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | adopt out any dog or adopt out or return to field any cat | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | unless it has been sterilized and microchipped. However, an | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | animal shelter or animal control facility may adopt out a dog | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | or cat that has not been sterilized and microchipped if the | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | adopting owner has executed a written agreement to have | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | sterilizing and microchipping procedures performed within 14 | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | days after a licensed veterinarian certifies the dog or cat is | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | healthy enough for sterilizing and microchipping procedures | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | and a licensed veterinarian has certified that the dog or cat | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | is too sick or injured to be sterilized or it would be | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | detrimental to the health of the dog or cat to be sterilized or | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | microchipped at the time of the adoption. | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | (b) An animal shelter or animal control facility may adopt | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | out any dog or cat that is not free of disease, injury, or | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | abnormality if the disease, injury, or abnormality is |
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