Lowering Egg Prices Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3423 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3423

     To make inapplicable to surplus broiler hatching eggs certain 
      regulations relating to shell eggs, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 10, 2025

  Mr. Cotton introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
     To make inapplicable to surplus broiler hatching eggs certain 
      regulations relating to shell eggs, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Lowering Egg Prices Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. INAPPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN SHELL EGG RULE PROVISIONS TO SURPLUS 
              BROILER HATCHING EGGS SOLD TO EGG BREAKERS.

    (a) Inapplicability of Current Rule.--Effective on the date of the 
enactment of this Act, section 118.4(e) of title 21, Code of Federal 
Regulations (or successor regulations) shall not apply with respect to 
surplus broiler hatching eggs that are intended to be sold to an egg 
breaker for purposes of processing such eggs as liquid egg products 
subject to regulation under the Egg Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 
1031 et seq.).
    (b) Revised Rule Required.--Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs and in 
consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, shall issue a rule 
revising section 118.4 of title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (or 
successor regulations), to allow for surplus broiler hatching eggs to 
be held at such temperature and for such period of time at such 
temperature, so as to be compatible with conditions for hatching chicks 
and to allow for the sale of such eggs to egg breakers for the purposes 
described in subsection (a).
    (c) Definitions.--In this Act:
            (1) The terms ``egg'' and ``egg product'' have the meanings 
        given such terms in section 4 of the Egg Products Inspection 
        Act (21 U.S.C. 1033).
            (2) The term ``egg breaker'' means a facility in the 
        commercial sector that processes eggs by breaking the eggs out 
        of their shells and selling the resulting liquid egg product in 
        bulk to food manufacturers.
            (3) The term ``broiler hatching egg'' means an egg intended 
        for use by broiler hatcheries for the production of baby 
        chicks.
            (4) The term ``broiler hatchery'' means a facility where 
        fertilized eggs from broiler breeder chickens are incubated and 
        hatched into day-old chicks, which are then raised on farms to 
        produce meat as broiler chickens.
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