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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 983
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 983 by replacing
3 the title with the following:
4 "AN ACT concerning kosher foods."; and
5 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
6 following:
7 "Section 5. The Kosher Food Act is amended by changing
8 Section 1 as follows:
9 (410 ILCS 645/1) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 288.1)
10 Sec. 1. (a) Every person, who, with intent to defraud,
11 sells, or exposes for sale any meat or meat preparations and
12 falsely represents the same to be kosher, whether such meat
13 or meat preparations be raw or prepared for human
14 consumption, or as having been prepared under and of a
15 product or products sanctioned by the certifying organization
16 or the supervising rabbi Code of Jewish Laws; or falsely
17 represents any food product or the contents of any food
18 package or container to be so constituted and prepared, by
19 having or permitting to be inscribed thereon the word
20 "kosher" in any language; or in any sign, display or
21 advertisement characterizes his place of business as a
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1 "kosher" establishment if non-kosher food products are sold
2 or offered for sale in such place of business; or who, while
3 dealing or purporting to deal in kosher meat or meat
4 preparations, prepares or handles or sells, or causes to be
5 prepared or handled or sold, any food products which, when so
6 prepared or handled or sold together with kosher meat or meat
7 preparations, constitute a violation of the requirements of
8 the certifying organization or the supervising rabbi Code of
9 Jewish Laws, and thereby render such kosher meat or meat
10 preparations, so handled or sold in conjunction therewith,
11 non-kosher, or who otherwise in the preparation, handling,
12 and sale of such kosher meat or meat preparations fails to
13 comply with such religious requirements and dietary laws
14 necessary to constitute such meat or meat preparations
15 kosher, or who, without complying with such religious or
16 dietary laws, issues or maintains any sign or advertisement
17 in any language purporting to represent that he sells or
18 deals in kosher meat or meat preparations, shall be deemed
19 guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to the penalty provided
20 for in Section 2 of this Act.
21 (b) It shall be unlawful to label or designate food or
22 food products with the words parve or pareve knowing that
23 such food or food products contain milk, meat or poultry
24 products rendering such food products impermissible to be
25 used or eaten according to the certifying organization or the
26 supervising rabbi Code of Jewish Laws.
27 (c) Any food commodity in package form which is marked
28 as being certified by an organization, identified on the
29 package by any symbol or is marked as being Kosher shall not
30 be offered for sale by the producer or distributor of such
31 food commodity until 30 days after such producer or
32 distributor shall have registered the name, current address
33 and telephone numbers of the certifying organization or the
34 supervising rabbi with the Illinois Department of
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1 Agriculture.
2 (Source: P.A. 83-1029.)".