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Lowering Egg Prices Act of 2025
To make inapplicable to surplus broiler hatching eggs certain regulations relating to shell eggs, and for other purposes.
Summary
The bill makes certain federal shell egg safety regulations inapplicable to surplus broiler hatching eggs that are intended to be sold to egg-processing facilities (egg breakers) for conversion into liquid egg products. The FDA, in consultation with the USDA, must issue a revised regulation within 180 days that allows these surplus eggs to be held at temperatures and timeframes suitable for hatching purposes while also enabling their sale to egg breakers for processing. The change applies only to surplus broiler hatching eggs destined for processing, not to eggs sold for direct human consumption in their shell form. The bill defines relevant terms including egg breaker, broiler hatching egg, and broiler hatchery.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] (R-AR)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Tom Cotton’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $80,461
- APOLLO MANAGEMENT $25,600
- APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT $19,800
- BRODIE GENERATIONAL CAPITAL PARTNERS $13,200
- APOLLO $11,600
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Tom Cotton → · Outside spending →
Actions (2)
- Dec 10, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. · senate
- Dec 10, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
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
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. <all>
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