Bill Text: IL HB5117 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Animal Welfare Act. Provides that the Department of Agriculture may audit or validate the intake and outcome of statistics required for a license renewal (rather than shall not be required to). Provides that the annual renewal license fee shall be offered to an animal shelter at a reduced rate if the animal shelter can demonstrate that it has satisfied specified requirements. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5117 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB5117-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB5117 Introduced , by Rep. Andrew S. Chesney SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
225 ILCS 605/7 from Ch. 8, par. 307
225 ILCS 605/21 from Ch. 8, par. 321
Amends the Animal Welfare Act. Provides that the Department of Agriculture may audit or validate the intake and outcome of statistics required for a license renewal (rather than shall not be required to). Provides that the annual renewal license fee shall be offered to an animal shelter at a reduced rate if the animal shelter can demonstrate that it has satisfied specified requirements. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Animal Welfare Act is amended by changing
Sections 7 and 21 as follows:
(225 ILCS 605/7) (from Ch. 8, par. 307)
Sec. 7. Applications for renewal licenses shall be made to
the Department in a manner prescribed by the Department, shall
contain such information as will enable the Department to
determine if the applicant is qualified to continue to hold a
license, shall report beginning inventory and intake and
outcome statistics from the previous calendar year, and shall
be accompanied by the required fee, which shall not be
returnable. The report of intake and outcome statistics shall
include the following:
(1) The total number of dogs, cats, and other animals,
divided into species, taken in by the animal shelter or
animal control facility, in the following categories:
(A) surrendered by owner;
(B) stray;
(C) impounded other than stray;
(D) confiscated under the Humane Care for Animals
Act;

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(E) transfer from other licensees within the
State;
(F) transferred into or imported from out of the
State;
(G) transferred into or imported from outside the
country; and
(H) born in shelter or animal control facility.
(2) The disposition of all dogs, cats, and other
animals taken in by the animal shelter or animal control
facility, divided into species. This data must include
dispositions by:
(A) reclamation by owner;
(B) adopted or sold;
(C) euthanized;
(D) euthanized per request of the owner;
(E) died in custody;
(F) transferred to another licensee;
(G) transferred to an out-of-State nonprofit
agency;
(H) animals missing, stolen, or escaped;
(I) cats returned in field; and
(J) ending inventory; shelter count at end of the
last day of the year.
The Department may shall not be required to audit or
validate the intake and outcome statistics required to be
submitted under this Section.

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(Source: P.A. 100-870, eff. 1-1-19; 101-295, eff. 8-9-19.)
(225 ILCS 605/21) (from Ch. 8, par. 321)
Sec. 21. License fees.
(a) The following fees shall accompany each application for
a license, which fees shall not be returnable:
(1) a. for an original license to an individual . $350
(2) b. for an original license to a partnership,
animal shelter, or animal control
facility or corporation ................ $350
(3) c. for an annual renewal license ............ $100
(4) d. for each branch office license ........... $100
(5) e. for the renewal of any license not renewed by
July 1 of the year ..................... $400
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(b) The annual renewal license fee shall be offered to an
animal shelter at a reduced rate if the animal shelter can
demonstrate that it has satisfied the following requirements:
(1) a collaboration with a rescue group classified as a
tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code;
(2) the creation and maintenance of a comprehensive
adoption program with features such as off-site adoption
events and adoption incentives;
(3) the development of innovative strategies to

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increase pet retention, such as counseling and resource
referrals; and
(4) a record of consistent public relations and
marketing efforts directed at increasing adoptions and
donations or recruiting volunteers.
The Department shall adopt rules necessary to implement
this subsection (b).
(Source: P.A. 101-295, eff. 8-9-19; revised 12-9-19.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.