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HB0168 • 2025
Cultivated meat-prohibition.
AN ACT relating to public health and safety; prohibiting the manufacture, sale and distribution of cultivated meat for human consumption; providing definitions; providing penalties; and providing for effective dates.
Agriculture
Did Not Pass
The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.
- Sponsor
- Representative Eklund
- Last action
- 2025-02-20
- Official status
- inactive
- Effective date
- 3/1/2025
Plain English Breakdown
The bill did not pass and was not signed into law, so there are no enforcement mechanisms in place.
Ban on Lab-Grown Meat
This act prohibits the manufacture, sale and distribution of lab-grown meat for human consumption in Wyoming.
What This Bill Does
- Prohibits anyone from manufacturing, selling, or distributing cultivated meat for human consumption.
- Defines 'cultivated meat' as meat grown entirely in a laboratory using animal cells.
- Requires the Department of Agriculture to create rules to enforce this ban.
Who It Names or Affects
- People who make, sell, or distribute lab-grown meat
- The Wyoming Department of Agriculture
Terms To Know
- Cultivated Meat
- Meat that is grown entirely in a laboratory from animal cells.
Limits and Unknowns
- This bill did not pass and was not signed into law.
- The effective date of the act, if it had passed, would have been July 1, 2025.
Amendments
These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.
Plain English: The amendment to HB0168 adds requirements that cultivated meat must be authorized as safe for human consumption by both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a state department before it can be manufactured, sold, or distributed.
- Adds language requiring FDA authorization for cultivated meat to be considered safe for human consumption.
- Inserts a clause stating that any manufacture, sale, or distribution of cultivated meat must occur only with the authorization from both the FDA and a state department.
- The amendment does not specify which state department is responsible for this authorization.
Plain English: The amendment adds the phrase 'for human consumption' after the word 'meat' in three places within the bill.
- Adds 'for human consumption' after 'meat' on page 1, line 2 of the bill.
- Adds 'for human consumption' after 'meat' on page 2, line 14 of the bill.
- Adds 'for human consumption' after 'meat' on page 3, line 1 of the bill.
- The amendment does not provide additional context or explanation for why this phrase is being added in these specific locations.
Plain English: The amendment to HB0168 removes the prohibition on manufacturing cultivated meat and changes penalties related to its sale, focusing instead on regulating state agencies and local governmental entities.
- Removes the ban on manufacturing cultivated meat for human consumption.
- Modifies the regulation of cultivated meat sales by specifying that only state agencies or local government entities are affected if they sell it.
- Eliminates provisions related to penalties for violating the bill.
- The amendment's text is incomplete and does not provide full details on how state agencies and local governmental entities will be regulated, making some aspects unclear.
Plain English: The amendment removes the phrase 'entirely in a laboratory' from the bill text.
- Removes the phrase 'entirely in a laboratory' from the bill.
- It is unclear what impact removing this phrase will have on the definition and regulation of cultivated meat.
Bill History
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2025-02-20
Senate
S 3rd Reading:Failed 12-19-0-0-0
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2025-02-19
Senate
S 2nd Reading:Passed
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2025-02-18
Senate
S COW:Passed
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2025-02-13
Senate
S Placed on General File
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2025-02-13
Senate
S05 - Agriculture:Recommend Do Pass 4-1-0-0-0
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2025-02-10
Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S05 - Agriculture
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2025-02-04
Senate
S Received for Introduction
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2025-02-04
House
H 3rd Reading:Passed 42-17-3-0-0
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2025-02-03
House
H 2nd Reading:Passed
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2025-01-31
House
H 2nd Reading:Laid Back
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2025-01-30
House
H COW:Passed
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2025-01-28
House
H Placed on General File
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2025-01-28
House
H05 - Agriculture:Recommend Do Pass 8-1-0-0-0
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2025-01-20
House
H Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture
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2025-01-14
House
H Received for Introduction
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2025-01-13
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Current Bill Text
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25LSO-0277
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0277
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HOUSE BILL NO. HB0168
Cultivated meat-prohibition.
Sponsored by: Representative(s) Eklund, Banks, Brady and Davis and Senator(s) Crago and Driskill
A BILL
for
AN ACT relating to public health and safety; prohibiting the manufacture, sale and distribution of cultivated meat for human consumption; providing definitions; providing penalties; and providing for effective dates.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1
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W.S. 35
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110(a) by creating a new paragraph (xxxii) and by renumbering paragraph (xxxii) as (xxxiii), 35
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111(a) by creating a new paragraph (xiv) and 35
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125(a) are amended to read:
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Definitions.
(a)
As used in this act:
(xxxii)
"Cultivated meat" means meat that is grown entirely in a laboratory from cultured animal cells rather than harvested from an animal;
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(xxxiii)
"This act" means W.S. 35
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109 through 35
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Prohibited acts.
(a)
No person shall:
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Manufacture for sale, sell, offer for sale or distribute for sale cultivated meat for human consumption in this state.
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Summary suspension of a license.
(a)
A regulatory authority may summarily suspend a license to operate a food establishment if it determines through consultation with a health officer, inspection, examination of food, employees, records or other authorized means that
an establishment is manufacturing for sale, selling, offering for sale or distributing for sale cultivated meat for human consumption or
an imminent health hazard exists including, but not limited to, fire, flood, extended interruption of electrical or water service, or sewage backup.
Section 2.
The department of agriculture shall promulgate all rules necessary to implement this act.
Section 3.
(a)
Except as otherwise provided by subsection (b) of this section, this act is effective July 1, 2025
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(b)
Sections 2 and 3 of this act are effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.
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