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MI SB1054

Bill

Status

Introduced

10/30/2024

Primary Sponsor

Erika Geiss

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Origin

Senate

102nd Legislature

AI Summary

  • Establishes standards for procuring, processing, storing, and distributing human breast milk by hospitals, human milk banks, and human milk banking companies based on FDA, CDC, and Human Milk Banking Association of North America guidelines.

  • Prohibits knowingly providing adulterated human milk, with penalties ranging from civil infractions up to 15-year felonies and fines up to $15,000 plus twice any economic benefit, depending on whether injury or death results.

  • Requires raw human milk not be provided for infant consumption and mandates screening of milk donors for drugs, substances, and serological diseases as determined by the Human Milk Banking Association of North America.

  • Prohibits person-to-person internet sales of human breast milk for valuable consideration, though exempts informal family milk sharing and community-based milk sharing programs; violations subject to civil fines of $1,000 to $10,000.

  • Requires human milk banks and companies to provide lactation support and education to donors prioritizing the donor's own infant, and to disclose what happens to all procured milk regardless of acceptance or rejection.

  • Effective January 1, 2026, conditioned on Senate Bill No. 1055 also being enacted into law.

Legislative Description

Food: milk; human breast milk banks, companies, and cooperatives; regulate. Creates new act. TIE BAR WITH: SB 1055'24

Women: other

Last Action

Referred To Committee On Housing And Human Services

10/30/2024

Committee Referrals

Housing And Human Services10/30/2024

Full Bill Text

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