State Cage-Free Laws Tracker
Housing mandates, sale-ban scope, labeling and grade-floor rules that go beyond the federal baseline — state by state, with a source link on every row.
Informational only — this is not legal advice. Laws change, rulemaking is ongoing in several of these states, and a compliance decision should be checked against the state authority directly, not against this page alone.
This list covers states where a requirement beyond the federal baseline was confirmed in research. It is not a 50-state survey — a state's absence here means nothing surfaced, not that the state has no cage-free law at all.
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Recent changes
Dates below are when we updated our own tracker records — not necessarily when the underlying law itself changed. Each entry links to the state's row.
All 50 states at a glance
Housing mandate, effective date, sale-ban scope and research confidence for every state in one scan. Expand any row for the full detail, including sources.
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Pending legislation
Bills in motion with no enacted mandate yet. Not counted among the states above.
Full detail table
The original per-state table, with full prose and every citation, unchanged. Only the 13 states with a confirmed requirement appear here — see the comparison view above for all 50.
See also
Tracking carton dating, refrigeration statements and other packaging/labeling rules instead of housing mandates? See the State Egg Packaging & Labeling Tracker. Want deadlines ordered by countdown, joined against which tracked companies our coverage has named in each state? See Cage-Free Compliance Deadlines.
Corrections
If something here is wrong or out of date, tell us which state and what changed: [email protected].
Federal baseline
What applies everywhere in the US regardless of state law. Every state above is a departure from this baseline, not a replacement of it.
Sourced from primary statute text and agency guidance where marked "high" confidence, and from secondary reporting where marked "medium" or "low" — see each row's confidence badge and citation link. Rows marked "unverified" should not be relied on without checking the cited source yourself.