093_HB2885
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1 AN ACT concerning animal disease laboratories.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Animal Disease Laboratories Act is
5 amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
6 (510 ILCS 10/1) (from Ch. 8, par. 105.11)
7 Sec. 1. Laboratory services.
8 (a) The Department of Agriculture is authorized to
9 establish such additional number of animal disease
10 laboratories, not exceeding five, as may be necessary to
11 serve the livestock and poultry industry of the State.
12 (b) Such laboratories each shall be in charge of a
13 licensed veterinarian, who in addition to making serological
14 blood tests, shall be competent to make diagnoses of such
15 cases of livestock and poultry diseases as may be submitted
16 to such laboratories.
17 (c) The Department may enter into an arrangement with
18 the College of Veterinary Medicine of the University of
19 Illinois whereby any cases submitted to such laboratories
20 which are not susceptible of diagnosis in the field or by
21 common laboratory procedure, or upon which research is
22 required, may be submitted to such College of Veterinary
23 Medicine for diagnosis or research.
24 (d) The Department may establish and collect reasonable
25 fees for diagnostic services performed by such animal disease
26 laboratories. However, no fees may be collected for
27 diagnostic tests required by Illinois law.
28 (e) The Department may establish and collect reasonable
29 fees for providing analyses of research samples out-of-state
30 samples, non-agricultural samples, and survey project
31 samples, and diagnostic tests required by Illinois law.
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1 These samples and tests shall be defined by rule. The fees
2 shall be deposited into the Illinois Department of
3 Agriculture Laboratory Services Revolving Fund. The fees
4 collected shall not exceed the Department's actual cost to
5 provide these services.
6 (f) Moneys collected under subsection (e) shall be
7 appropriated from the Illinois Department of Agriculture
8 Laboratory Services Revolving Fund solely for the purposes of
9 (1) testing specimens submitted in support of Department
10 programs established for animal health, welfare, and safety,
11 and the protection of Illinois consumers of Illinois
12 agricultural products, and (2) testing specimens submitted by
13 veterinarians and agency personnel to determine whether
14 chemically hazardous or biologically infectious substances or
15 other disease causing conditions are present.
16 (g) The Director may issue rules, consistent with the
17 provisions of this Act, for the administration and
18 enforcement of this Act. These rules shall be approved by
19 the Advisory Board of Livestock Commissioners.
20 (Source: P.A. 90-403, eff. 1-1-98.)
21 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
22 becoming law.