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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1671
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1671 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | ||||||
| 5 | Police Service Dog Protection Act. | ||||||
| 6 | Section 5. Definitions. In this Act: | ||||||
| 7 | "Law enforcement agency" means a county, municipal, or | ||||||
| 8 | State law enforcement agency. | ||||||
| 9 | "Police dog" has the same meaning ascribed to the term in | ||||||
| 10 | subsection (e) of Section 3.55 of the Emergency Medical | ||||||
| 11 | Services (EMS) Systems Act. | ||||||
| 12 | Section 10. Medical care. (a) The law enforcement | ||||||
| 13 | agency, or handler of the police dog shall be required to have | ||||||
| 14 | every police dog receive, at minimum, an annual medical | ||||||
| 15 | examination by a licensed veterinarian. | ||||||
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| 1 | (b) Prior to beginning service as a police dog, the | ||||||
| 2 | employing law enforcement agency shall require the dog be | ||||||
| 3 | vaccinated against rabies as required under Section 8 of the | ||||||
| 4 | Animal Control Act. | ||||||
| 5 | Section 15. Vehicles transporting police dogs; | ||||||
| 6 | requirements.
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| 7 | A vehicle used to transport a police dog shall be equipped | ||||||
| 8 | with a heat sensor monitoring device which shall: | ||||||
| 9 | (1) monitor the internal temperature of the vehicle in | ||||||
| 10 | which the police dog is being transported; | ||||||
| 11 | (2) provide an audible and visual notification in the | ||||||
| 12 | vehicle if the interior temperature reaches 85 degrees | ||||||
| 13 | Fahrenheit which remotely notifies the law enforcement | ||||||
| 14 | officer responsible for the police dog or the law | ||||||
| 15 | enforcement agency's 24 hour dispatch center; and | ||||||
| 16 | (3) have a safety mechanism to reduce the interior | ||||||
| 17 | temperature of the vehicle.".
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