Bill Text: MI HB5090 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Animals; care and treatment; experimentation on dogs in a manner that causes pain or distress, and certain related activities, by an affiliate of a public body; prohibit. Creates new act.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-10-10 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 10/10/2019 [HB5090 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB5090-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 5090
October 08, 2019, Introduced by Reps. Cambensy,
Warren, Inman, Hertel, Elder, Sabo, Brann, Ellison, Cynthia Johnson and
Yaroch and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
(a) "Dog" means a live dog of the species Canis familiaris.
(b) "Public body" means this state, a city, village, township, county, school district, public college or university, or single-purpose government agency, or any other body that is created by state statute or law.
Sec. 3. (1) Subject to subsection (3), in carrying out research or training activities at a public body, an individual employed by, contracted by, or otherwise directed to take action on behalf of that public body shall not do any of the following:
(a) Conduct a research or training activity on a dog in a manner that causes pain or distress.
(b) Breed, purchase, transport, house, feed, or maintain a dog for use in a research or training activity that causes pain or distress.
(2) For purposes of this section, a research or training activity causes pain or distress in either of the following circumstances:
(a) Regardless of whether any pain relief is provided, the research or training activity involves a procedure that would, in the absence of pain relief, reasonably be expected to cause more than slight or momentary pain or distress in a human being to whom that procedure was applied.
(b) The research or training activity would, if it were conducted, be reportable to the United States Department of Agriculture in compliance with 9 CFR 2.36(b)(6) or (7).
(3) The prohibition in subsection (1) does not apply, if consent is given by the dog's guardian, to the use of a dog in nonlethal clinical research or veterinary training.
Sec. 5. An individual who violates this act is responsible for a civil fine of not less than $5,000.00 or more than $10,000.00 for each animal that is the subject of a violation for each day that the violation continues. The attorney general shall bring a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction to recover the fine described in this section, and costs and fees, including attorney fees. A determination of responsibility for a violation of this act does not preclude a conviction, sentence, or determination of responsibility for a violation of any other law of this state arising from the same conduct.
