Full Text of HB1574 102nd General Assembly
HB1574ham001 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Janet Yang Rohr Filed: 4/8/2022
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1574
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1574 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Sections | 5 | | 10-20.84 and 34-18.79 as follows: | 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/10-20.84 new) | 7 | | Sec. 10-20.84. Halal and kosher food services. Each school | 8 | | board shall provide for a program by which both halal and | 9 | | kosher food options that comply with federal and State | 10 | | nutritional guidelines are offered in
public school cafeterias | 11 | | by request. Any halal or kosher food product offered under | 12 | | this Section shall be certified as halal or kosher by a | 13 | | State-approved organization or purchased from a State-approved | 14 | | halal-certified or kosher-certified vendor. Any person, | 15 | | organization, or vendor falsely representing a food product it | 16 | | provides as halal or falsely representing itself as a |
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| 1 | | halal-certified vendor shall be subject to penalty under the | 2 | | Halal Food Act. Any person, organization, or vendor falsely | 3 | | representing a food product it provides as kosher or falsely | 4 | | representing itself as a kosher-certified vendor shall be | 5 | | subject to penalty under the Kosher Food Act. As used in this | 6 | | Section, "halal" has the same meaning as provided under | 7 | | Section 5 of the Halal Food Act. As used in this Section, | 8 | | "kosher" has the meaning provided under orthodox Jewish law. | 9 | | (105 ILCS 5/34-18.79 new) | 10 | | Sec. 34-18.79. Halal and kosher food services. The board | 11 | | shall provide for a program by which halal and kosher food | 12 | | options that comply with federal and State nutritional | 13 | | guidelines are offered in
school cafeterias by request. Any | 14 | | halal or kosher food product offered under this Section shall | 15 | | be certified as halal or kosher by a State-approved | 16 | | organization or purchased from a State-approved | 17 | | halal-certified or kosher-certified vendor. Any person, | 18 | | organization, or vendor falsely representing a food product it | 19 | | provides as halal or falsely representing itself as a | 20 | | halal-certified vendor shall be subject to penalty under the | 21 | | Halal Food Act. Any person, organization, or vendor falsely | 22 | | representing a food product it provides as kosher or falsely | 23 | | representing itself as a kosher-certified vendor shall be | 24 | | subject to penalty under the Kosher Food Act. As used in this | 25 | | Section, "halal" has the same meaning as provided under |
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| 1 | | Section 5 of the Halal Food Act. As used in this Section, | 2 | | "kosher" has the meaning provided under orthodox Jewish law. | 3 | | Section 15. The Halal Food Act is amended by adding | 4 | | Section 25 as follows: | 5 | | (410 ILCS 637/25 new) | 6 | | Sec. 25. State facility halal food services. | 7 | | (a) Any State-owned or State-operated facility that | 8 | | provides food services or cafeteria services for which food | 9 | | products are provided or offered for sale also shall offer, | 10 | | upon request provided with reasonable notice, halal food | 11 | | options that comply with federal and State nutritional | 12 | | guidelines at such facility. | 13 | | (b) Any halal food product offered under this Section | 14 | | shall be certified as halal by a State-approved organization | 15 | | or purchased from a State-approved halal-certified vendor. Any | 16 | | person, organization, or vendor falsely representing a food | 17 | | product it provides as halal or falsely representing itself as | 18 | | a halal-certified vendor shall be subject to penalties under | 19 | | Section 10 or 15 of this Act. | 20 | | (c) The Department of Central Management Services and all | 21 | | other relevant State agencies shall adopt all rules necessary | 22 | | for the implementation of this Section.
| 23 | | Section 20. The Kosher Food Act is amended by adding |
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| 1 | | Section 1.5 and by changing Section 2 as follows: | 2 | | (410 ILCS 645/1.5 new) | 3 | | Sec. 1.5. State facility kosher food services. | 4 | | (a) As used in this Section, "kosher" has the meaning | 5 | | provided under orthodox Jewish law. | 6 | | (b) Any State-owned or State-operated facility that | 7 | | provides food services or cafeteria services for which food | 8 | | products are provided or offered for sale also shall offer, | 9 | | upon request provided with reasonable notice, kosher food | 10 | | options that comply with federal and State nutritional | 11 | | guidelines at such facility. | 12 | | (c) Any kosher food product offered under this Section | 13 | | shall be certified as kosher by a State-approved organization | 14 | | or purchased from a State-approved kosher-certified vendor. | 15 | | Any person, organization, or vendor falsely representing a | 16 | | food product it provides as kosher or falsely representing | 17 | | itself as a kosher-certified vendor shall be subject to | 18 | | penalties under Section 2 of this Act. | 19 | | (d) The Department of Central Management Services and all | 20 | | other relevant State agencies shall adopt all rules necessary | 21 | | for the implementation of this Section.
| 22 | | (410 ILCS 645/2) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 288.2)
| 23 | | Sec. 2.
Any person convicted of violating Section 1 or 1.5 | 24 | | of this Act, shall for the
first offense, be guilty of a Class |
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| 1 | | C misdemeanor and for the second and
each subsequent offense | 2 | | shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
| 3 | | (Source: P.A. 77-2510 .)".
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