Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB1891 Compare Versions

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1	1	103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB1891 Introduced 2/9/2023, by Sen. David Koehler SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: New Act Creates the Administration of the Transparent and Responsible Antibiotic Use Act. Provides that, on or after January 1, 2025, feed distributors shall report to the Department of Agriculture all veterinary feed directives associated with medicated feed distributed to producers along with associated feed distribution records. Provides that the Department shall set a target for reducing the use of medically important antibiotics in food processing by 50%. Provides that the Attorney General has exclusive authority to enforce the provisions of this Act and each violation of this Act is punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 to be paid to the Department and deposited into the Agricultural Premium Fund in the State treasury. Provides that the Attorney General may seek injunctive relief to prevent further violations of the Act. Defines terms. LRB103 28852 RLC 55237 b A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB1891 Introduced 2/9/2023, by Sen. David Koehler SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: New Act New Act Creates the Administration of the Transparent and Responsible Antibiotic Use Act. Provides that, on or after January 1, 2025, feed distributors shall report to the Department of Agriculture all veterinary feed directives associated with medicated feed distributed to producers along with associated feed distribution records. Provides that the Department shall set a target for reducing the use of medically important antibiotics in food processing by 50%. Provides that the Attorney General has exclusive authority to enforce the provisions of this Act and each violation of this Act is punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 to be paid to the Department and deposited into the Agricultural Premium Fund in the State treasury. Provides that the Attorney General may seek injunctive relief to prevent further violations of the Act. Defines terms. LRB103 28852 RLC 55237 b LRB103 28852 RLC 55237 b A BILL FOR
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11	11	1 AN ACT concerning animals.
12	12	2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
13	13	3 represented in the General Assembly:
14	14	4 Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
15	15	5 Transparent and Responsible Antibiotic Use Act.
16	16	6 Section 5. Findings; purpose.
17	17	7 (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that:
18	18	8 (1) In 2019, deaths associated with drug-resistant
19	19	9 infections ranked as the third-leading cause of death
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21	21	11 (2) Experts warn that without swift action to reduce
22	22	12 antibiotic use, drug-resistant infections could claim 10
23	23	13 million lives across the world annually by 2050.
24	24	14 (3) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has
25	25	15 stated that, "You and I are living in a time when some
26	26	16 miracle drugs [antibiotics] no longer perform miracles and
27	27	17 families are being ripped apart by a microscopic enemy.
28	28	18 The time for action is now and we can be part of the
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30	30	20 (4) The issue of antibiotic overuse, whether on humans
31	31	21 or animals, is a significant and urgent human health
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33	33	23 (5) The United States Food and Drug Administration and
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40	40	Creates the Administration of the Transparent and Responsible Antibiotic Use Act. Provides that, on or after January 1, 2025, feed distributors shall report to the Department of Agriculture all veterinary feed directives associated with medicated feed distributed to producers along with associated feed distribution records. Provides that the Department shall set a target for reducing the use of medically important antibiotics in food processing by 50%. Provides that the Attorney General has exclusive authority to enforce the provisions of this Act and each violation of this Act is punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 to be paid to the Department and deposited into the Agricultural Premium Fund in the State treasury. Provides that the Attorney General may seek injunctive relief to prevent further violations of the Act. Defines terms.
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68	68	1 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have stated
69	69	2 that there is a definitive link between the use of
70	70	3 antibiotics on industrial farms and the crisis of
71	71	4 antibiotic resistance in humans.
72	72	5 (6) National targets are in place to reduce antibiotic
73	73	6 use in human health care, and hospitals that participate
74	74	7 in Medicare and Medicaid are required to implement
75	75	8 antibiotic stewardship programs and collect antibiotic use
76	76	9 data. That level of focus and accountability doesn't exist
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78	78	11 (7) Nearly two-thirds of medically important
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80	80	13 food-producing animals, often to compensate for the
81	81	14 effects of unsanitary and overcrowded living conditions.
82	82	15 (8) Many of the antibiotics provided to food-producing
83	83	16 animals are identical to, or from the same family as,
84	84	17 drugs used in human medicine to cure serious diseases;
85	85	18 therefore, bacterial resistance to these drugs poses a
86	86	19 threat to human health because these drugs may not work to
87	87	20 treat human disease when needed.
88	88	21 (9) Producers often use medically important
89	89	22 antibiotics to compensate for industrial farming
90	90	23 conditions. The World Health Organization recommends
91	91	24 "complete restriction of use of all classes of medically
92	92	25 important antimicrobials in food-producing animals for
93	93	26 prevention of infectious diseases that have not yet been
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104	104	1 clinically diagnosed".
105	105	2 (10) Passing this Act is necessary to protect the
106	106	3 health and safety of Illinois consumers from antibiotic
107	107	4 resistant bacteria spreading through the food supply.
108	108	5 (b) The purpose of this Act is to protect public health by
109	109	6 preserving the effectiveness of antibiotics now and for future
110	110	7 generations by reducing antibiotic use in food animal
111	111	8 production.
112	112	9 Section 10. Definitions. In this Act:
113	113	10 "Department" means the Illinois Department of Agriculture.
114	114	11 "Disease control" means the use of a medically important
115	115	12 antibiotic to stop the transmission of a documented disease or
116	116	13 infection present in:
117	117	14 (1) a group of animals in contact with each other; or
118	118	15 (2) a barn or equivalent animal housing unit.
119	119	16 "Disease prevention" means the administration of a
120	120	17 medically important antibiotic to an animal or multiple
121	121	18 animals in the absence of contact with animals with a
122	122	19 clinically diagnosed disease for the purpose of avoiding
123	123	20 illness.
124	124	21 "Food-producing animal" means:
125	125	22 (1) cattle, swine, or poultry, regardless of whether
126	126	23 the specific animal is raised for the purpose of producing
127	127	24 food for human consumption; or
128	128	25 (2) any type of animal that the Department identifies
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139	139	1 by rule as livestock typically used to produce food for
140	140	2 human consumption.
141	141	3 "Medically important antibiotic" means a drug that is
142	142	4 composed in whole or in part of a drug from an antimicrobial
143	143	5 class that is categorized as critically important, highly
144	144	6 important, or important in the World Health Organization list
145	145	7 of Critically Important Antimicrobials for Human Medicine (5th
146	146	8 Revision, 2017), or a subsequent revision or successor
147	147	9 document issued by the World Health Organization.
148	148	10 "Producer" means a person or entity that establishes
149	149	11 management and production standards for the maintenance, care,
150	150	12 and raising of food-producing animals and that:
151	151	13 (1) operates a business raising food-producing animals
152	152	14 that are used to produce any product group sold by a
153	153	15 grocer; or
154	154	16 (2) purchases or otherwise obtains live food-producing
155	155	17 animals that it slaughters, or sells for slaughter, for
156	156	18 production of any product group sold by a grocer.
157	157	19 "Disease treatment" means administering a medically
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159	159	21 populations of animals to resolve clinical signs of infection
160	160	22 or illness.
161	161	23 "Growth maintenance" means administering a medically
162	162	24 important antibiotic to food-producing animals for the purpose
163	163	25 of maintaining weight.
164	164	26 "Veterinary feed directive (VFD)" means a written
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175	175	1 (nonverbal) statement issued by a licensed veterinarian in the
176	176	2 course of the veterinarian's professional practice that orders
177	177	3 the use of a VFD drug or combination VFD drug in or on an
178	178	4 animal feed. This written statement authorizes the client (the
179	179	5 owner of the animal or animals or other caretaker) to obtain
180	180	6 and use animal feed bearing or containing a VFD drug or
181	181	7 combination VFD drug to treat the client's animals only in
182	182	8 accordance with the conditions for use approved, conditionally
183	183	9 approved, or indexed by the Food and Drug Administration.
184	184	10 "Veterinary feed directive (VFD) drug" is a drug intended
185	185	11 for use in or on animal feed which is limited by an approved
186	186	12 application filed pursuant to Section 512(b) of the Federal
187	187	13 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, a conditionally approved
188	188	14 application filed pursuant to Section 571 of the Federal Food,
189	189	15 Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or an index listing under Section 572
190	190	16 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to use under the
191	191	17 professional supervision of a licensed veterinarian. Use of
192	192	18 animal feed bearing or containing a VFD drug must be
193	193	19 authorized by a lawful veterinary feed directive.
194	194	20 "Feed distributor" means any person who distributes a
195	195	21 medicated feed containing a VFD drug to another person. Such
196	196	22 other person may be another distributor or the
197	197	23 client-recipient of a VFD.
198	198	24 Section 15. Collecting and reporting antibiotic use data.
199	199	25 (a) This Section applies to the collection and reporting
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210	210	1 of antibiotic use data on or after January 1, 2025.
211	211	2 (b) Feed distributors shall report to the Department all
212	212	3 Veterinary Feed Directives associated with medicated feed
213	213	4 distributed to producers along with associated feed
214	214	5 distribution records. The distribution records shall indicate:
215	215	6 (1) the rate of inclusion of active ingredients;
216	216	7 (2) the dates the feed was distributed; and
217	217	8 (3) the total volume of feed shipped to clients (final
218	218	9 users) for each VFD.
219	219	10 (c) The Department shall compile data submitted by feed
220	220	11 distributors on antibiotic use into a publicly available
221	221	12 report issued annually. In each annual report, the following
222	222	13 summary information on distributed medicated feeds collected
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224	224	15 (1) the quantity of antibiotic active ingredients
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226	226	17 (2) the indications or reasons for use of each
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228	228	19 (3) the type of use such as disease treatment, disease
229	229	20 control, disease prevention, and growth maintenance;
230	230	21 (4) the duration of use;
231	231	22 (5) the animal species and animal production class
232	232	23 receiving the feed; and
233	233	24 (6) the approximate number of animals receiving
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245	245	1 Section 20. Setting targets for reducing antibiotic use.
246	246	2 The Department shall set a target for reducing the use of
247	247	3 medically important antibiotics in food-producing animals by
248	248	4 50%. The Department shall:
249	249	5 (1) use the first full year of antibiotic use reported
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251	251	7 (2) begin to measure progress against that reduction
252	252	8 target annually;
253	253	9 (3) set a deadline for meeting that reduction target
254	254	10 within 5 years after the first antibiotic use data is
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256	256	12 (4) work with relevant stakeholders in implementing
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259	259	15 Section 25. Violations. The Attorney General has exclusive
260	260	16 authority to enforce the provisions of this Act. Each
261	261	17 violation of this Act is punishable by a civil penalty not to
262	262	18 exceed $1,000 to be paid to the Department and deposited into
263	263	19 the Agricultural Premium Fund in the State treasury. The
264	264	20 Attorney General may seek injunctive relief to prevent further
265	265	21 violations of this Act.
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