republic-os/legislation/us/states/il/102nd/sb-1673.md

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Bill	FERAL CAT SPAY/NEUTER	Amends the Animal Control Act. Provides that in order to humanely reduce the feral cat population in the State, the Department of Agriculture of the State of Illinois may provide guidance for the operation of programs for trapping, neutering or spaying, vaccination and return or release of feral cats. Provides that no other State agency has any jurisdiction over feral cats.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	102nd	SB 1673	Illinois SB 1673 (102nd)	bill		enacted	Katie Stuart Linda Holmes	6	39	2	2021-02-26	2021-08-06	openstates	ocd-bill/8a9175cd-e187-476f-b79f-903110b3ed15	https://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1673&GAID=16&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=134309&SessionID=110&GA=102	bae26b195a1910171bd61cae0ed1de98552f03573fd7ba3863a7143d78b5f75f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 1673 (102nd) — FERAL CAT SPAY/NEUTER

Amends the Animal Control Act. Provides that in order to humanely reduce the feral cat population in the State, the Department of Agriculture of the State of Illinois may provide guidance for the operation of programs for trapping, neutering or spaying, vaccination and return or release of feral cats. Provides that no other State agency has any jurisdiction over feral cats.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate Amendment 001 (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Amendment 002 (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Amendment 003 (committee substitute) — source
6. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 111–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 58–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Katie Stuart — primary (person)
• Linda Holmes — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2021-02-26 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Linda Holmes filing
• 2021-02-26 First Reading reading-1
• 2021-02-26 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2021-03-09 Assigned to Agriculture referral-committee
• 2021-03-16 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Linda Holmes amendment-introduction
• 2021-03-16 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2021-03-19 Postponed - Agriculture
• 2021-03-22 Senate Committee Amendment No. 2 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Linda Holmes amendment-introduction
• 2021-03-22 Senate Committee Amendment No. 2 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2021-03-23 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Agriculture
• 2021-03-25 Senate Committee Amendment No. 2 Assignments Refers to Agriculture
• 2021-03-29 Senate Committee Amendment No. 3 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Linda Holmes amendment-introduction
• 2021-03-29 Senate Committee Amendment No. 3 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2021-04-07 Senate Committee Amendment No. 3 Assignments Refers to Agriculture
• 2021-04-15 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Postponed - Agriculture
• 2021-04-15 Senate Committee Amendment No. 2 Postponed - Agriculture
• 2021-04-15 Senate Committee Amendment No. 3 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2021-04-15 Do Pass as Amended Agriculture; 013-000-000 committee-passage
• 2021-04-15 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 20, 2021
• 2021-04-16 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2021-04-16 Senate Committee Amendment No. 2 Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2021-04-20 Second Reading reading-2
• 2021-04-20 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading ** April 21, 2021
• 2021-04-23 Third Reading - Passed; 058-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-26 Arrived in House introduction
• 2021-04-26 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Katie Stuart
• 2021-04-27 First Reading reading-1
• 2021-04-27 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2021-05-04 Assigned to Agriculture & Conservation Committee referral-committee
• 2021-05-11 Do Pass / Short Debate Agriculture & Conservation Committee; 006-001-000 committee-passage
• 2021-05-12 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2021-05-25 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2021-05-25 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2021-05-27 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 111-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-27 Passed Both Houses
• 2021-06-25 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-08-06 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2021-08-06 Effective Date January 1, 2022
• 2021-08-06 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0329 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8a9175cd-e187-476f-b79f-903110b3ed15. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).