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Michigan Legislature· HB 5092PA 34 of 2025

Animals: exotic; breeding license requirements; modify, the official text

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Act
No. 34

Public
Acts of 2025

Approved
by the Governor

November
18, 2025

Filed
with the Secretary of State

November
18, 2025

EFFECTIVE
DATE:  November 18, 2025

state of michigan

103rd Legislature

Regular session of 2025

Introduced by Reps. Bierlein, Alexander, Skaggs, Wooden,
Pohutsky, Glanville, Outman, Rigas, Neyer, Tisdel, Thompson, Roth, O’Neal,
Johnsen, Schmaltz, Hoadley, Linting, Kelly, Kunse, Bruck, Slagh, Posthumus,
Borton and Robinson

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5092

AN ACT to amend 2000 PA 274,
entitled “An act to regulate the ownership, possession, and care of certain
large carnivores; to prohibit the ownership and possession of certain large
carnivores; to impose fees; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain
governmental entities and officials and of certain veterinarians; and to
prescribe penalties and provide remedies,” by amending section 22a (MCL
287.1122a), as added by 2018 PA 610.

The People of the State of
Michigan enact:

Sec.
22a. (1) Subject to section 22b, a person that meets all of the following
requirements may apply to the department for a breeding license to breed large
carnivores:

(a) Is conducting a for-profit or nonprofit business, if the
primary purpose of that business is the presentation of animals including large
carnivores to the public for education or exhibition purposes.

(b) Is a class C licensee that possesses and maintains a
class C license under 9 CFR parts 1 and 2.

(c) Meets or exceeds all standards required of a class C
licensee under 9 CFR parts 1 and 2 and maintains the class C license in good
standing for the previous 5 years.

(d) Does not allow a patron to come into direct contact with
a large carnivore.

(e) Does not sell large carnivores, except to another person
that meets the requirements of this section.

(2)
As used in this section, “good standing” means a person has not had a federal
or state license suspended or revoked, or has not been made subject to a cease
and desist order.

This
act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of
Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved___________________________________________

____________________________________________________

Governor
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