Public Act 097-0888
 
SB3292 EnrolledLRB097 19858 CEL 65139 b


  
    AN ACT concerning animals.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Animal Disease Laboratories Act is amended  
by changing Section 1 as follows:
 



    (510 ILCS 10/1)  (from Ch. 8, par. 105.11)



    Sec. 1. Laboratory services. 

    (a) The Department of Agriculture is authorized to 
establish such
additional number of animal disease 
laboratories, not exceeding five, as may be
necessary to serve 
the livestock and poultry industry of the State.

    (b) Such laboratories each shall be in charge of a licensed

veterinarian, who in addition to making serological blood 
tests, shall be
competent to make diagnoses of such cases of 
livestock and poultry diseases as
may be submitted to such 
laboratories.

    (c) The Department may enter into an arrangement with the 
College of
Veterinary Medicine of the University of Illinois 
whereby any cases
submitted to such laboratories which are not 
susceptible of diagnosis in
the field or by common laboratory 
procedure, or upon which research is
required, may be submitted 
to such College of Veterinary Medicine for
diagnosis or 
research.

    (d) The Department may establish and collect reasonable 
fees for diagnostic
services performed by such animal disease 
laboratories.

    (e) The Department may establish and collect reasonable 
fees for providing
analyses of research samples, out-of-state 
samples, non-agricultural
samples, and survey project
samples.  
These samples shall be defined by rule. The fees shall be

deposited into the Illinois Department of
Agriculture 
Laboratory Services Revolving Fund.

    (f) Moneys collected under subsection (e) shall be 
appropriated from the
Illinois Department of Agriculture 
Laboratory Services Revolving Fund
solely for the purposes of 
(1) testing specimens submitted in support of
Department 
programs established for animal health, welfare, and safety, 
and the
protection of Illinois consumers of Illinois 
agricultural
products, and (2) testing specimens submitted by 
veterinarians and agency
personnel to determine whether 
chemically hazardous or biologically
infectious substances or 
other disease causing conditions are present.

    (g) The Director may issue rules, consistent with the 
provisions of this
Act, for the administration and enforcement 
of this Act.  These rules shall be
approved by the Advisory 
Board of Livestock Commissioners.

(Source: P.A. 96-1310, eff. 7-27-10.)

 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.