Illinois 96th Regular Session Status: Passed House

HB 583 — ANIMALS--HORSE MEAT

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    Passed House
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    Passed Senate
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill died with 96th Regular Session. It reached “Passed House” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

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Summary

Amends the Illinois Horse Meat Act. Restores language that exempted certain types of horse meat from regulation under the Act. Repeals a provision that prohibits the slaughter of horses for human consumption. Amends the Animals Intended for Food Act. Expands the definition of "animal" to include "horses, mules, or other equidae". Amends the Illinois Equine Infectious Anemia Control Act. Allows equidae more than 12 months of age to enter the State for immediate slaughter without a certificate of veterinary inspection. Requires equidae entering the State for immediate slaughter to be accompanied by a consignment direct to slaughter at an approved equine slaughtering establishment. Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Creates an exemption from the general prohibition against selling, offering to sell, leading, riding, transporting, or driving on any public way any equidae that, because of debility, disease, lameness or any other cause, could not be worked in this State. Deletes a provision that prohibited injured equidae from being sent directly to a slaughter facility. Amends the Humane Slaughter of Livestock Act. Deletes a provision in the definition of the term "livestock" that excludes "horses, mules, or other equidae to be used in and for the preparation of meat or meat products for consumption by human beings". Imposes conditions on any rulemaking authority. Effective immediately.

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What changed in the latest version

49 added · 62 removed

Plain-language change summary

The recent amendments to HB 583 create the Equine Rescue Assistance Fund, which will help support qualified equine rescue organizations with grants funded through various sources. Additionally, the bill adds certain exemptions to the Illinois Horse Meat Act, allowing horse meat that is properly labeled and processed in federally inspected facilities for sale outside Illinois to be excluded from regulation. These changes matter as they aim to support the welfare of horses while also addressing regulations related to horse meat production.

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*LRB09603429JDS13453b* HB0583 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois and 2010 HB0583 Introduced 2/6/2009, by Rep.
HB0583 Engrossed LRB096 03429 JDS 13453 b AN ACT concerning animals.
Jim Sacia SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
ILCS 635/13.1 new ILCS 635/1.5 rep.
ILCS 605/2.1 from Ch.
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107.1 ILCS 65/4 from Ch.
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954 ILCS 70/5 from Ch.
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705 ILCS 70/7.5 ILCS 75/2 from Ch.
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229.52 Amends the Illinois Horse Meat Act.
Restores language that exempted certain types of horse meat from regulation under the Act.
Repeals a provision that prohibits the slaughter of horses for human consumption.
Amends the Animals Intended for Food Act.
Expands the definition of "animal" to include "horses, mules, or other equidae".
Amends the Illinois Equine Infectious Anemia Control Act.
Allows equidae more than 12 months of age to enter the State for immediate slaughter without a certificate of veterinary inspection.
Requires equidae entering the State for immediate slaughter to be accompanied by a consignment direct to slaughter at an approved equine slaughtering establishment.
Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act.
Creates an exemption from the general prohibition against selling, offering to sell, leading, riding, transporting, or driving on any public way any equidae that, because of debility, disease, lameness or any other cause, could not be worked in this State.
Deletes a provision that prohibited injured equidae from being sent directly to a slaughter facility.
Amends the Humane Slaughter of Livestock Act.
Deletes a provision in the definition of the term "livestock" that excludes "horses, mules, or other equidae to be used in and for the preparation of meat or meat products for consumption by human beings".
Imposes conditions on any rulemaking authority.
Effective immediately.
LRB096 03429 JDS 13453 b A BILL FOR HB0583 LRB096 03429 JDS 13453 b AN ACT concerning animals.
The Illinois Horse Meat Act is amended by adding Section 13.1 as follows:
The State Finance Act is amended by adding Section 5.719 as follows:
(30 ILCS 105/5.719 new) Sec.
5.719.
The Equine Rescue Assistance Fund.
Section 7.
The Illinois Horse Meat Act is amended by adding Sections 13.1 and 13.3 as follows:
(225 ILCS 635/13.3 new) Sec.
13.3.
Equine Rescue Assistance Fund and Program.
(a) The Equine Rescue Assistance Fund is created as a HB0583 Engrossed - 2 - LRB096 03429 JDS 13453 b special fund in the State Treasury.
The Fund may accept fees, gifts, grants, donations, and federal or State appropriations, for use by the Department in making grants to qualified equine rescue organizations through the Equine Rescue Assistance Program.
(b) Federally inspected facilities that produce horse meat that is exempt from this Act's requirements because of Section 13.1 shall collect a fee of $25 for every horse slaughtered.
These facilities shall remit these fees to the Department on a quarterly basis, and the Department shall deposit remitted fees into the Equine Rescue Assistance Fund.
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(c) The Department shall create and administer an Equine Rescue Assistance Program.
Subject to appropriation from the Fund, the Department shall make grants to qualified equine rescue organizations for the expansion of equine rescue facilities and for the care and maintenance of rescued horses.
When in the interest of the general public and in HB0583 - 2 - LRB096 03429 JDS 13453 b the opinion of the Department of Agriculture it is deemed advisable, the Department has authority to quarantine or restrict any and all animals intended for human consumption that contain poisonous or deleterious substances which may render meat or meat products or poultry or poultry products from such animals or poultry injurious to health;
When in the interest of the general public and in HB0583 Engrossed - 3 - LRB096 03429 JDS 13453 b the opinion of the Department of Agriculture it is deemed advisable, the Department has authority to quarantine or restrict any and all animals intended for human consumption that contain poisonous or deleterious substances which may render meat or meat products or poultry or poultry products from such animals or poultry injurious to health;
HB0583 - 3 - LRB096 03429 JDS 13453 b Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules;
HB0583 Engrossed - 4 - LRB096 03429 JDS 13453 b Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules;
Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and procedures of HB0583 - 4 - LRB096 03429 JDS 13453 b the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules;
Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and procedures of HB0583 Engrossed - 5 - LRB096 03429 JDS 13453 b the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules;
Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of the Illinois HB0583 - 5 - LRB096 03429 JDS 13453 b Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules;
Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of the Illinois HB0583 Engrossed - 6 - LRB096 03429 JDS 13453 b Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules;
A second or subsequent violation is a Class 4 felony, with every day that a violation HB0583 - 6 - LRB096 03429 JDS 13453 b continues constituting a separate offense.
A second or subsequent violation is a Class 4 felony, with every day that a violation HB0583 Engrossed - 7 - LRB096 03429 JDS 13453 b continues constituting a separate offense.
"Livestock", HB0583 - 7 - LRB096 03429 JDS 13453 b however, does not include horses, mules, or other equidae to be used in and for the preparation of meat or meat products for consumption by human beings, which is prohibited under Section 1.5 of the Illinois Horse Meat Act.
"Livestock", HB0583 Engrossed - 8 - LRB096 03429 JDS 13453 b however, does not include horses, mules, or other equidae to be used in and for the preparation of meat or meat products for consumption by human beings, which is prohibited under Section 1.5 of the Illinois Horse Meat Act.
HB0583 - 8 - LRB096 03429 JDS 13453 b (Source:
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Action History

  1. Session Sine Die

  2. Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee

  3. House Floor Amendment No. 1 State Mandates Fiscal Note Filed as Amended

  4. Placed on Calendar - Consideration Postponed

  5. Third Reading - Consideration Postponed

  6. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Balanced Budget Note Filed as Amended

  7. Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate

  8. Second Reading - Short Debate

  9. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Judicial Note Filed as Amended

  10. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Housing Affordability Impact Note Filed as Amended

  11. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Home Rule Note Filed as Amended

  12. House Floor Amendment No. 1 State Debt Impact Note Filed as Amended

  13. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Pension Note Filed as Amended

  14. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Fiscal Note Filed as Amended

  15. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Land Conveyance Appraisal Note Filed as Amended

  16. Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate

  17. Second Reading - Short Debate

  18. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Housing Affordability Impact Note Requested as Amended by Rep. John A. Fritchey

  19. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Home Rule Note Requested as Amended by Rep. John A. Fritchey

  20. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Fiscal Note Requested as Amended by Rep. John A. Fritchey

  21. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Shane Cultra

  22. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Chapin Rose

  23. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jerry L. Mitchell

  24. Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate

  25. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted by Voice Vote

  26. Second Reading - Short Debate

  27. Removed Co-Sponsor Rep. Brandon W. Phelps

  28. Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Brandon W. Phelps

  29. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Ron Stephens

  30. Remove Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Ron Stephens

  31. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Brandon W. Phelps

  32. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommends Be Adopted Agriculture & Conservation Committee; 011-001-000

  33. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Agriculture & Conservation Committee

  34. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee

  35. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Jim Sacia

  36. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael W. Tryon

  37. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Keith P. Sommer

  38. Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Ron Stephens

  39. Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. David Reis

  40. Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Mike Bost

  41. Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert W. Pritchard

  42. Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate

  43. Do Pass / Short Debate Agriculture & Conservation Committee; 011-002-000

  44. Assigned to Agriculture & Conservation Committee

  45. Referred to Rules Committee

  46. First Reading

  47. Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Jim Sacia

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  • Jim Sacia

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Frequently asked questions

What does HB 583 do?
Amends the Illinois Horse Meat Act. Restores language that exempted certain types of horse meat from regulation under the Act. Repeals a provision that prohibits the slaughter of horses for human consumption. Amends the Animals Intended for Food Act. Expands the definition of "animal" to include "horses, mules, or other equidae". Amends the Illinois Equine Infectious Anemia Control Act. Allows equidae more than 12 months of age to enter the State for immediate slaughter without a certificate of veterinary inspection. Requires equidae entering the State for immediate slaughter to be accompanied by a consignment direct to slaughter at an approved equine slaughtering establishment. Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Creates an exemption from the general prohibition against selling, offering to sell, leading, riding, transporting, or driving on any public way any equidae that, because of debility, disease, lameness or any other cause, could not be worked in this State. Deletes a provision that prohibited injured equidae from being sent directly to a slaughter facility. Amends the Humane Slaughter of Livestock Act. Deletes a provision in the definition of the term "livestock" that excludes "horses, mules, or other equidae to be used in and for the preparation of meat or meat products for consumption by human beings". Imposes conditions on any rulemaking authority. Effective immediately.
Who sponsors HB 583?
HB 583 is sponsored by Jim Sacia.
What is the current status of HB 583?
This bill died with 96th Regular Session. It reached “Passed House” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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