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SB4180 • 2026
ANIMAL CONTROL ACT-ATTACK
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ANIMAL CONTROL ACT-ATTACK
Filed with Secretary by Sen. Jil Tracy
First Reading
Referred to Assignments
ANIMAL CONTROL ACT-ATTACK
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Full Text of SB4180 Home Legislation Full Text SB4180 - 104th General Assembly Bill Status Full Text Votes Witness Slips Select Menu Bill Status Full Text Votes Witness Slips Printer Friendly Version Introduced Printer Friendly Version Introduced Open PDF 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB4180 Introduced 3/24/2026, by Sen. Jil Tracy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 510 ILCS 5/16 from Ch. 8, par. 366 Amends the Animal Control Act. In provisions regarding civil liability for animal attacks or injuries, deletes a provision regarding an attempt to attack a person. Provides that, in addition to civil liability, an owner is guilty of specified criminal offenses if the owner negligently fails to provide adequate care or adequate control of a dog or other animal that attacks or injures a person. Creates a Class A misdemeanor, a Class 4 felony for damages exceeding $750 or for serious bodily injury, and a Class 3 felony if the victim dies. Defines "animal attack", "serious bodily injury", and "victim of the animal attack". Effective immediately. LRB104 21053 BDA 35568 b A BILL FOR SB4180 LRB104 21053 BDA 35568 b 1 AN ACT concerning animals. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Animal Control Act is amended by changing 5 Section 16 as follows: 6 (510 ILCS 5/16) (from Ch. 8, par. 366) 7 Sec. 16. Animal attacks or injuries. If a dog or other 8 animal, without provocation, attacks , attempts to attack, or 9 injures any person who is peaceably conducting himself or 10 herself in any place where he or she may lawfully be, the owner 11 of the such dog or other animal is liable in civil damages to 12 the such person who is the victim of the animal attack for the 13 full amount of the injury proximately caused thereby . In 14 addition, if the owner of the animal negligently fails to 15 provide adequate care or adequate control of the animal 16 proximately causing the damage or injury under this Section: 17 (1) the owner of the animal is guilty of a Class A 18 misdemeanor; 19 (2) the owner of the animal is guilty of a Class 4 20 felony if the damage proximately caused by the animal 21 attack exceeds $750 or if the person who is the victim of 22 the animal attack suffers a serious bodily injury; or 23 (3) the owner of the animal is guilty of a Class 3 SB4180 - 2 - LRB104 21053 BDA 35568 b 1 felony if the person who is the victim of the animal attack 2 dies . 3 In this Section: 4 "Animal attack" means the situation in which a dog or 5 other animal, without provocation, attacks or injures any 6 person who is peaceably conducting himself or herself in any 7 place where he or she may lawfully be. 8 "Serious bodily injury" means a bodily injury that creates 9 a substantial risk of death or that causes serious 10 disfigurement or protracted loss or impairment of the function 11 of any part of the body. 12 "Victim of the animal attack" means the person who the dog 13 or other animal, without provocation, attacks or injures while 14 the person peaceably is conducting himself or herself in any 15 place where he or she may lawfully be. 16 (Source: P.A. 94-819, eff. 5-31-06.) 17 Section 99. 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