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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5625

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 5625  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 4        "Section 5. The Humane Care for Animals Act is amended by
 5    adding Section 3.03-1 as follows:

 6        (510 ILCS 70/3.03-1 new)
 7        Sec. 3.03-1. Depiction of animal cruelty.
 8        (a)  "Depiction  of  animal  cruelty" means any visual or
 9    auditory depiction, including any photograph,  motion-picture
10    film,  video recording, electronic image, or sound recording,
11    that would constitute a  violation  of  Section  3.01,  3.02,
12    3.03,  or  4.01 of the Humane Care for Animals Act or Section
13    26-5 of the Criminal Code of 1961.
14        (b)  No person may knowingly create, sell, market,  offer
15    to  market or sell, or possess a depiction of animal cruelty.
16    No person may place that depiction in commerce for commercial
17    gain or entertainment. This Section does not apply  when  the
18    depiction   has  serious  religious,  political,  scientific,
19    educational, law enforcement or humane investigator training,
20    journalistic, or historical value.
21        The  creation,  sale,  marketing,  offering  to  sell  or
22    market, or possession of the depiction of animal  cruelty  is
 
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 1    illegal   regardless  of  whether  the  maiming,  mutilation,
 2    torture, wounding, abuse, killing, or any other conduct  took
 3    place in this State.
 4        (c)  Any  person  convicted  of violating this Section is
 5    guilty of a Class  A  misdemeanor.  A  second  or  subsequent
 6    violation  is  a  Class  4  felony.  In addition to any other
 7    penalty provided by law, upon conviction for  violating  this
 8    Section,  the court may order the convicted person to undergo
 9    a psychological or psychiatric evaluation and to undergo  any
10    treatment  at  the  convicted person's expense that the court
11    determines to be appropriate after due consideration  of  the
12    evaluation.  If the convicted person is a juvenile, the court
13    must order the convicted person to undergo a psychological or
14    psychiatric evaluation and  to  undergo  treatment  that  the
15    court determines to be appropriate after due consideration of
16    the evaluation.".

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