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ENGROSSED HOUSE AMENDMENT
TO
ENGROSSED SENATE BILL NO. 96 By: Hamilton and Bullard of the
Senate
and
Bashore of the House
An Act relating to public health and safety; defining
term; prohibiting the manufacture, sell, hold or
offer for sale, or distribution of cultivated meat;
providing punishment for violation; providing for
revocation of certain licenses for violation;
providing the State Department of Health certain
rulemaking authority; providing exemptions; providing
for codification; and providing an effective date.
AUTHORS: Remove Representative Bashore as principal House
author and substitute with Representative Burns
AUTHOR: Add the following Senate coauthor: Deevers
AMENDMENT NO. 1. Strike the title, enacting clause, and entire bill
and insert:
"An Act relating to public health and safety;
defining term; making certain acts unlawful;
providing penalties; subjecting food sellers and
distributors of cultivated meat products to
enforcement measures of the State Department of
Health; authorizing the suspension and revocation of
licenses for violations; authorizing the adoption of
rules; providing construing provision; providing for
codification; and providing an effective date.
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1-1150 of Title 63, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. For the purposes of this section, the term "cultivated meat"
means a meat or meat product that was produced from cultured animal
tissue produced from in vitro animal cell cultures outside of the
animal from which the cells were derived.
B. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture,
sell, hold or offer for sale, or distribute any cultivated meat
product in this state.
2. Any person who violates the provisions of this subsection
shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor.
C. 1. A seller of food under Sections 1-1118, 1-1118.1, and 1-
1119 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes that sells or distributes
cultivated meat products in violation of subsection B of this
section shall be subject to all enforcement measures as provided by
rule of the State Department of Health.
2. The license of a seller of food may be suspended or revoked,
as provided by rule of the State Department of Health, upon the
conviction of an owner or an employee of the licensed seller of food
for a violation of subsection B of this section.
D. The State Department of Health may adopt rules as necessary
to implement this section.
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E. Nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing any
federal, state, or local governmental entity or institution of
higher education, or a person that is partnered with a governmental
entity or institution of higher education as evidenced by a formal
agreement, from conducting research in this state regarding the
production of cultivated meat products.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025."
Passed the House of Representatives the 5th day of May, 2025.
Presiding Officer of the House of
Representatives
Passed the Senate the ____ day of __________, 2025.
Presiding Officer of the Senate
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ENGROSSED SENATE
BILL NO. 96 By: Hamilton and Bullard of the
Senate
and
Bashore of the House
An Act relating to agriculture; amending 2 O.S. 2021,
Section 5-107, which relates to the Oklahoma Meat
Consumer Protection Act; defining terms; requiring
disclosure; providing for promulgation of rules; and
providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 3. AMENDATORY 2 O.S. 2021, Section 5-107, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 5-107. A. There is hereby created the “Oklahoma Meat
Consumer Protection Act”.
B. As used in the Oklahoma Meat Consumer Protection Act:
1. “Cell-cultured meat”, also referred to as lab-grown meat,
cultivated meat, clean meat, in vitro meat, imitation meat,
synthetic meat, and fake meat, means a food product developed from
animal cell cultures rather than through the traditional raising and
slaughtering of livestock. Cell-cultured meat does not include
imitation meat made of non-meat ingredients including, but not
limited to, plant-based protein;
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2. “Insect-protein food product” means a food product having
one or more sensory attributes that resemble a type of tissue
originating from an agricultural food animal but that, in lieu of
being derived from meat processing, is derived from manufacturing
insect parts;
3. “Livestock” means animals defined by paragraph 9 of Section
1-3 of Title 2 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
2. 4. “Meat” means any edible portion of livestock or part
thereof;
3. 5. “Misrepresent” means the use of any untrue, misleading,
or deceptive oral or written statement, advertisement, label,
display, picture, illustration, or sample; and
4. 6. “Represent” means the use of any form of oral or written
statement, advertisement, label, display, picture, illustration, or
sample.
C. Pursuant to the Oklahoma Meat Consumer Protection Act, no
person advertising, offering for sale, or selling meat shall engage
in any misleading or deceptive practices, including, but not limited
to, the following:
1. Misrepresenting the cut, grade, brand, trade name, or weight
or measure of any meat, or misrepresenting a product as meat that is
not derived from harvested production livestock; provided, product
packaging for plant-based items shall not be considered in violation
of the provisions of this paragraph so long as the packaging
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displays that the product is derived from plant-based sources in
type that is uniform in size and prominence to the name of the
product;
2. Using a USDA-quality grade on a product not graded by the
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) or Oklahoma
Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry (ODAFF); or
3. Failing to fully and conspicuously disclose the correct
government grade for any product if the product is represented as
having been graded by the USDA or ODAFF; or
4. Failing to fully and conspicuously disclose that a product
is cell-cultured meat or is an insect-protein food product.
D. The State Board of Agriculture shall promulgate rules
necessary to enforce compliance with the Oklahoma Meat Consumer
Protection Act.
SECTION 4. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
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Passed the Senate the 12th day of March, 2025.
Presiding Officer of the Senate
Passed the House of Representatives the ____ day of __________,
2025.
Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives