2024 House Bill 6283

Animals: animal shelters; cross-references to 1969 PA 287 in research act, 1969 PA 224; update.

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.

Introduced in the House

Dec. 10, 2024

Introduced by Rep. Phil Skaggs (D-80)

Referred to the Committee on Government Operations