Signed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to concur with house amendments and pass a bill that extends the requirements for 100 percent cage-free eggs to 2024.

Highlights:

• Prohibits any shipping crates used in the shipment of birds by common carrier from being used as an exhibition coop (Sec. 40). 

• Prohibits farm owners or operators from doing either of the following: (Sec. 46):

• Tethering or confining a covered animal on a farm for all of or the majority of a day, in a manner that prevents the covered animal from lying down, standing up, turning around freely, or fully extending its limbs; or

• Tethering or confining an egg-laying hen on a farm in an enclosure other than a cage-free housing system, or with less than the amount of usable floor space per hen as provided in the housing guidelines for cage-free production. 

• Specifies that the bill’s provisions regarding egg-laying or shell hens go into effect on December 31, 2024 (Sec. 46). 

• Specifies that the bill’s provisions regarding gestating sows will become effective April 1, 2020 (Sec. 46).

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to amend and pass a bill that extends the requirements for 100 percent cage-free eggs to 2025.

Highlights:

• Prohibits any shipping crates used in the shipment of birds by common carrier from being used as an exhibition coop (Sec. 40). 

• Prohibits farm owners or operators from doing either of the following: (Sec. 46)

• Tethering or confining a covered animal on a farm for all of or the majority of a day, in a manner that prevents the covered animal from lying down, standing up, turning around freely, or fully extending its limbs; or

• Tethering or confining an egg-laying hen on a farm in an enclosure other than a cage-free housing system, or with less than the amount of usable floor space per hen as provided in the housing guidelines for cage-free production. 

• Specifies that the bill’s provisions regarding egg-laying or shell hens go into effect on December 31, 2025 (Sec. 46). 

• Specifies that the bill’s provisions regarding gestating sows become effective 10 years after the enactment of this bill (Sec. 46).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

A vote to pass a bill that extends the requirement deadline for 100 percent cage-free eggs to 2025.

Highlights:

• Prohibits any shipping crates used in the shipment of birds by common carrier from being used as an exhibition coop (Sec. 40). 

• Prohibits farm owners or operators from doing either of the following: (Sec. 46)

• Tethering or confining a covered animal on a farm for all of or the majority of a day, in a manner that prevents the covered animal from lying down, standing up, turning around freely, or fully extending its limbs; or

• Tethering or confining an egg-laying hen on a farm in an enclosure other than a cage-free housing system, or with less than the amount of usable floor space per hen as provided in the housing guidelines for cage-free production. 

• Specifies that the bill’s provisions regarding egg-laying or shell hens go into effect on December 31, 2025 (Sec. 46). 

• Specifies that the bill’s provisions regarding gestating sows become effective 10 years after the enactment of this bill (Sec. 46).

Full Bill Text