DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin announced today that three initiatives proposed in his office’s 2023 legislative package have been signed into law. One of the new laws strengthens law enforcement’s ability to remove companion animals from those charged with animal cruelty while the other two protect personnel and residents at long-term health care facilities. The initiatives, now known as Public Act 103-0490 (amended the Humane Care for Animal Act), Public Act 103-0428 (amended the Health Care Worker Background Check Act) and Public Act 103-0293 (amended the part of the Criminal Code of 2012 providing further protection for seniors and long-term care facility residents) passed the General Assembly in May 2023 and were signed into law by Governor Pritzker. Public Act 103-0490 went into effect immediately upon the Governor’s signature (August 4, 2023) while Public Acts 103-0428 and 103-0293 will go into effect on January 1, 2024.
Public Act 103-0490, sponsored in the Senate by Senator Karina Villa and in the House of Representatives by Representatives Maura Hirschauer, Anne Stava-Murray and Terra Costa Howard, amends the Humane Care for Animals Act by mandating that upon a violation of certain sections of the Act, rather than a conviction, the court may order the person in violation to forfeit the companion animal. The bill also allows a court to prohibit the person or persons in the offender’s household from owning, possessing, harboring or taking custody or...
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