Bill Text: IL HB4330 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Provides that a person may not willfully and maliciously annoy, harass, taunt, injure, kill, or otherwise harm any animal (rather than a guide, hearing, or support dog) that provides assistance to a person with a disability. Sets forth penalties. Defines "assistance animal". Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4330 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB4330-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB4330 Introduced , by Rep. Maurice A. West, II SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
510 ILCS 70/2.01i new
510 ILCS 70/7.15
Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Provides that a person may not willfully and maliciously annoy, harass, taunt, injure, kill, or otherwise harm any animal (rather than a guide, hearing, or support dog) that provides assistance to a person with a disability. Sets forth penalties. Defines "assistance animal". Effective immediately.
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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 7.15 and by adding Section 2.01i as follows:
(510 ILCS 70/2.01i new)
Sec. 2.01i. Assistance animal. "Assistance animal" means
an animal trained by a licensed or certified person,
organization, or agency to assist a person who has a physical,
sensory, intellectual, developmental, psychiatric, or mental
disability in one or more daily life activities. "Assistance
animal" includes guide dogs, leader dogs, hearing ear dogs, and
any animal trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit
of a person with a disability, including, but not limited to:
(1) pulling a wheelchair;
(2) providing balance or stability support;
(3) retrieving objects; and
(4) providing assistance and support during a medical,
psychological, or emotional crisis.
(510 ILCS 70/7.15)
Sec. 7.15. Assistance animal Guide, hearing, and support
dogs.

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(a) A person may not willfully and maliciously annoy,
taunt, tease, harass, torment, beat, or strike an assistance
animal a guide, hearing, or support dog or otherwise engage in
any conduct directed toward an assistance animal a guide,
hearing, or support dog that is likely to impede or interfere
with the assistance animal's dog's performance of its duties or
that places the blind, hearing impaired, or person with a
physical disability being served or assisted by the assistance
animal dog in danger of injury.
(b) A person may not willfully and maliciously torture,
injure, or kill an assistance animal a guide, hearing, or
support dog.
(c) A person may not willfully and maliciously permit an
animal a dog that is owned, harbored, or controlled by the
person to cause injury to or the death of an assistance animal
a guide, hearing, or support dog while the assistance animal
guide, hearing, or support dog is in discharge of its duties.
(d) A person convicted of violating this Section is guilty
of a Class A misdemeanor. A second or subsequent violation is a
Class 4 felony. A person convicted of violating subsection (b)
or (c) of this Section is guilty of a Class 4 felony if the
assistance animal dog is killed or totally disabled, and may be
ordered by the court to make restitution to the person with a
disability having custody or ownership of the assistance animal
dog for veterinary bills and replacement costs of the
assistance animal dog.

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(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.