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.