HOUSE BILL NO. 6283 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: Sec. 1. As used in this act: (a) "Animal protection shelter" means a facility that is registered licensed with the department under section 6 4 of 1969 PA 287, MCL 287.336, 287.334, and is operated by any of the following: (i) A person. (ii) A humane society. (iii) A society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. (iv) Any other nonprofit organization for the care of homeless animals. (b) "Cat" means a domestic cat of any age of the species Felis catus. (c) "Dealer" means a person that for compensation or profit delivers for transportation, transports, boards, buys, or sells dogs or cats for research purposes. Dealer does not include a person that breeds or raises dogs or cats for sale to a research facility. (d) "Department" means the department of agriculture and rural development. (e) "Director" means the director of the department. (f) "Dog" means a domestic dog of any age of the species Canis lupus familiaris. (g) "Laboratory animal" means a dog or cat that is used or intended to be used for laboratory research at a research facility. (h) "Laboratory research" means research, tests, or experiments conducted for education, scientific, medical, or experimental purposes. (i) "Municipality" means a county, city, village, or township. (j) "Person" means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity. (k) "Research facility" means a school, hospital, laboratory, institution, organization, or person that is licensed or otherwise registered with the United States Department of Agriculture, that uses or intends to use a laboratory animal in laboratory research, and that does 1 or both of the following: (i) Purchases or transports laboratory animals. (ii) Receives funds from this state, a local government, or an agency or instrumentality of this state or a local government to finance its operations through grants, loans, or other funds. Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No.____ (request no. 06071'24) of the 102nd Legislature is enacted into law.
HOUSE BILL NO. 6283
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:
Sec. 1. As used in this act:
(a) "Animal protection shelter" means a facility that is registered licensed with the department under section 6 4 of 1969 PA 287, MCL 287.336, 287.334, and is operated by any of the following:
(i) A person.
(ii) A humane society.
(iii) A society for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
(iv) Any other nonprofit organization for the care of homeless animals.
(b) "Cat" means a domestic cat of any age of the species Felis catus.
(c) "Dealer" means a person that for compensation or profit delivers for transportation, transports, boards, buys, or sells dogs or cats for research purposes. Dealer does not include a person that breeds or raises dogs or cats for sale to a research facility.
(d) "Department" means the department of agriculture and rural development.
(e) "Director" means the director of the department.
(f) "Dog" means a domestic dog of any age of the species Canis lupus familiaris.
(g) "Laboratory animal" means a dog or cat that is used or intended to be used for laboratory research at a research facility.
(h) "Laboratory research" means research, tests, or experiments conducted for education, scientific, medical, or experimental purposes.
(i) "Municipality" means a county, city, village, or township.
(j) "Person" means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity.
(k) "Research facility" means a school, hospital, laboratory, institution, organization, or person that is licensed or otherwise registered with the United States Department of Agriculture, that uses or intends to use a laboratory animal in laboratory research, and that does 1 or both of the following:
(i) Purchases or transports laboratory animals.
(ii) Receives funds from this state, a local government, or an agency or instrumentality of this state or a local government to finance its operations through grants, loans, or other funds.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No.____ (request no. 06071'24) of the 102nd Legislature is enacted into law.