2025 House Bill 4493 / Public Act 43

Food: licensing; licensure exemptions; modify.

An act to amend 2000 PA 92, entitled “An act to codify the licensure and regulation of certain persons engaged in processing, manufacturing, production, packing, preparing, repacking, canning, preserving, freezing, fabricating, storing, selling, serving, or offering for sale food or drink for human consumption; to prescribe powers and duties of the department of agriculture and rural development; to provide for delegation of certain powers and duties to certain local units of government; to provide exemptions; to regulate the labeling, manufacture, distribution, and sale of food for protection of the consuming public and to prevent fraud and deception by prohibiting the misbranding, adulteration, manufacture, distribution, and sale of foods in violation of this act; to provide standards for food products and food establishments; to provide for immunity to certain persons under certain circumstances; to provide for enforcement of the act; to provide penalties and remedies for violation of the act; to provide for fees; to provide for promulgation of rules; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 4105 (MCL 289.4105), as amended by 2016 PA 188.

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Amends the Food Law to expand exemptions from licensure for various small-scale and specific food-related operations, aiming to reduce regulatory burdens while maintaining food safety standards.

Introduced in the House

May 14, 2025

Introduced by Rep. Jamie Thompson (R-28)

Referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform

June 12, 2025

Reported without amendment

June 24, 2025

Passed in the House 101 to 4 (details)

Motion to give immediate effect by Rep. Bryan Posthumus (R-90)

The motion prevailed by voice vote

Received in the Senate

June 26, 2025

Referred to the Committee on Regulatory Affairs

Dec. 18, 2025

Discharged from committee

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

Reported with substitute S-3

Substitute S-3 concurred in by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 29 to 6 (details)

Received in the House

Dec. 18, 2025

Substitute S-3 concurred in 85 to 3 (details)

Signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Dec. 23, 2025