House Bill 1080, created to ammend Illinois' Animal Control Act, proposes lifting the ban on cities and communities from classifying and banning dogs based on their breed. The Animal Control Act has a system that determines whether a dog should be considered dangerous or vicious, and currently, this does not involve any consideration of the dog's breed. In fact, the act bans classifying a dog as dangerous or vicious based on its breed.
Representative John Bradley told reporters that he created the bill to allow small communities the opporunity to completely ban certain dog breeds that are considered threatening or dangerous. One proponent of the bill, Marilyn Boles, stated, "Pit bulls, Rotts [rottweilers], and several other breeds are simply too large to be raised in residential neighborhoods, and while everyone says that their particular dog is just wonderful...if that were truly the case in every case, many children would not have the scars of dogs attacks."
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