HOUSE BILL NO. 6283
December 10, 2024, Introduced by Rep. Skaggs and referred to the Committee on Government
Operations.
A bill to amend 1969 PA 224, entitled
"An act to license and regulate dealers that deliver, transport,
board, buy, or sell dogs or cats for laboratory research purposes;
to regulate research facilities that use dogs or cats for
laboratory research; to require research facilities to offer
laboratory animals no longer needed for laboratory research to
certain animal protection shelters for adoption before euthanizing;
to require research facilities to submit annual reports; to provide
immunity from civil liability under certain conditions; to create
certain funds; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"
by amending section 1 (MCL 287.381), as amended by 2023 PA 315.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
1 Sec. 1. As used in this act:
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1 (a) "Animal protection shelter" means a facility that is
2 registered licensed with the department under section 6 4 of 1969
3 PA 287, MCL 287.336, 287.334, and is operated by any of the
4 following:
5 (i) A person.
6 (ii) A humane society.
7 (iii) A society for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
8 (iv) Any other nonprofit organization for the care of homeless
9 animals.
10 (b) "Cat" means a domestic cat of any age of the species Felis
11 catus.
12 (c) "Dealer" means a person that for compensation or profit
13 delivers for transportation, transports, boards, buys, or sells
14 dogs or cats for research purposes. Dealer does not include a
15 person that breeds or raises dogs or cats for sale to a research
16 facility.
17 (d) "Department" means the department of agriculture and rural
18 development.
19 (e) "Director" means the director of the department.
20 (f) "Dog" means a domestic dog of any age of the species Canis
21 lupus familiaris.
22 (g) "Laboratory animal" means a dog or cat that is used or
23 intended to be used for laboratory research at a research facility.
24 (h) "Laboratory research" means research, tests, or
25 experiments conducted for education, scientific, medical, or
26 experimental purposes.
27 (i) "Municipality" means a county, city, village, or township.
28 (j) "Person" means an individual, estate, business or
29 nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental
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1 subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity.
2 (k) "Research facility" means a school, hospital, laboratory,
3 institution, organization, or person that is licensed or otherwise
4 registered with the United States Department of Agriculture, that
5 uses or intends to use a laboratory animal in laboratory research,
6 and that does 1 or both of the following:
7 (i) Purchases or transports laboratory animals.
8 (ii) Receives funds from this state, a local government, or an
9 agency or instrumentality of this state or a local government to
10 finance its operations through grants, loans, or other funds.
11 Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect
12 unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No.____ (request no.
13 06071'24) of the 102nd Legislature is enacted into law.
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Statutes affected:
House Introduced Bill: 287.381