Bill Text: IL HB3257 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Provides that no person may sell, offer for sale, barter, or give away as a pet or novelty any hermit crab or goldfish that has been dyed, colored, or otherwise treated to impart an artificial color. Provides that a violation is a Class B misdemeanor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-09 - Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Linda Holmes [HB3257 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3257-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3257 Introduced , by Rep. Robert "Bob" Rita SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
510 ILCS 70/4 from Ch. 8, par. 704
Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Provides that no person may sell, offer for sale, barter, or give away as a pet or novelty any hermit crab or goldfish that has been dyed, colored, or otherwise treated to impart an artificial color. Provides that a violation is a Class B misdemeanor.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning animals.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Humane Care for Animals Act is amended by
changing Section 4 as follows:
(510 ILCS 70/4) (from Ch. 8, par. 704)
Sec. 4. Prohibited acts. No person may sell, offer for
sale, barter, or give away as a pet or a novelty any rabbit,
hermit crab, goldfish, or any baby chick, duckling or other
fowl which has been dyed, colored, or otherwise treated to
impart an artificial color thereto. Baby chicks or ducklings
shall not be sold, offered for sale, bartered, or given away as
pets or novelties. Rabbits, ducklings or baby chicks shall not
be awarded as prizes.
No person may allow for the adoption, transfer, sale,
offer for sale, barter, or give away any animal forfeited or
relinquished under Section 3.04 or 3.05 of this Act to the
person who forfeited the animal or a person residing in that
person's household.
A person convicted of violating this Section is guilty of
a Class B misdemeanor. A second or subsequent violation is a
Class 4 felony, with every day that a violation continues
constituting a separate offense.

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(Source: P.A. 100-504, eff. 6-1-18.)