ANIMALS--HORSE MEAT House SponsorsRep. Jim Sacia-Jil Tracy-Shane Cultra 1/11/2011HouseSession Sine Die 30 ILCS 105/5.755 new225 ILCS 635/13.1 new225 ILCS 635/13.3 new225 ILCS 635/1.5 rep.410 ILCS 605/2.1from Ch. 8, par. 107.1510 ILCS 65/4from Ch. 8, par. 954510 ILCS 70/5from Ch. 8, par. 705510 ILCS 70/7.5510 ILCS 75/2from Ch. 8, par. 229.52 Amends the Illinois Horse Meat Act. Exempts certain types of horse meat from regulation under the Act. Creates the Equine Rescue Assistance Fund. Requires certain facilities to collect a $25 fee for each slaughtered horse and to remit those sums to the Department of Agriculture for deposit into the Equine Rescue Assistance Fund. Requires the Department to create and administer an Equine Rescue Assistance Program to make grants to qualified equine rescue organizations for the expansion of equine rescue facilities and for the care and maintenance of rescued horses. 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 prohibits 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". Effective immediately.House Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to:30 ILCS 105/5.755 new225 ILCS 635/13.3 newRemoves provisions in the State Finance Act and Illinois Horse Meat Act that created the Equine Rescue Assistance Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Removes provisions in the Illinois Horse Meat Act that required (i) certain facilities to remit a $25 horse slaughter fee to the Department of Agriculture for deposit into the Equine Rescue Assistance Fund and (ii) the Department of Natural Resources to create and administer an Equine Rescue Assistance Program. 1/12/2010HouseFiled with the Clerk by Rep. Jim Sacia 1/12/2010HouseFirst Reading 1/12/2010HouseReferred to Rules Committee 2/9/2010HouseAssigned to Agriculture & Conservation Committee 2/18/2010HouseAdded Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Jil Tracy 2/23/2010HouseHouse Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Agriculture & Conservation Committee 2/23/2010HouseHouse Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Agriculture & Conservation Committee; by Voice Vote 2/23/2010HouseDo Pass as Amended / Short Debate Agriculture & Conservation Committee; 012-000-000 2/23/2010HousePlaced on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate 3/3/2010HouseAdded Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Shane Cultra 3/10/2010HouseSecond Reading - Short Debate 3/10/2010HousePlaced on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate 3/26/2010HouseRule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee 1/11/2011HouseSession Sine Die