HB5117 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB101 16031 SPS 65393 b

101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB5117

Introduced 2/18/2020, by Rep. Andrew S. Chesney - Daniel Didech

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.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

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;

(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.

(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 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.