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___________________________________________

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Governor