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Synopsis As Introduced
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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