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HB0061 • 2026

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.

Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor
Representative Strock
Last action
2026-02-23
Official status
inactive
Effective date
3/1/2026

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary does not provide specific details about penalties or enforcement mechanisms.

Ban on Lab-Grown Meat

This act bans the making, selling, and distributing lab-grown meat for people to eat in Wyoming.

What This Bill Does

  • Bans anyone from manufacturing, selling, or distributing cultivated meat meant for human consumption.
  • Defines 'cultivated meat' as meat grown entirely in a laboratory using animal cells.
  • Gives the agriculture department power to make rules about this new law.

Who It Names or Affects

  • People who want to eat lab-grown meat
  • Companies that produce or sell lab-grown meat

Terms To Know

Cultivated Meat
Meat grown in a laboratory from animal cells, not harvested from an actual animal.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill did not pass and was not considered by the Committee of the Whole.
  • It is unclear how this ban will be enforced or what penalties violators might face.
  • The law would have taken effect on July 1, 2026, but since it did not pass, it has no legal standing.

Bill History

  1. 2026-02-23 House

    H COW:H Did not consider for COW

  2. 2026-02-12 House

    H Placed on General File

  3. 2026-02-12 House

    H05 - Agriculture:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 7-2-0-0-0

  4. 2026-02-10 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture 49-12-1-0-0

  5. 2026-01-28 House

    H Received for Introduction

  6. 2026-01-27 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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26LSO-0391
2026
STATE OF WYOMING
26LSO-0391
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0061

Cultivated meat-prohibition.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Strock and Brown, G

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 (xxxii) as (xxxiii), 35
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111(a) by creating a new paragraph (xiv), 35
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119(e)(ii) and 35
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125(a) are amended to read:

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110.

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. Cultured animal cells includes cells collected from a living or recently slaughtered animal which are grown for the purposes of creating cultivated meat;

(xxxii)
(xxxiii)

"This act" means W.S. 35
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7
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109 through 35
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126.

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111.

Prohibited acts.

(a)

No person shall:

(xiv)

Manufacture for sale, sell, offer for sale or distribute for sale cultivated meat for human consumption in this state.

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119.

Fair packaging and labeling provisions.

(e)

The department shall promulgate rules with respect to labeling. Every retailer and every wholesaler who sells or offers for sale in this state through an establishment or otherwise any:

(ii)

Cell cultured
products, cultivated meat not intended for human consumption,
or plant based products not consistent with the definition of meat in subparagraph (vi)(A) of this subsection and not derived from harvested livestock, poultry, wildlife or exotic livestock as those terms are defined in W.S. 11
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101(a), 11
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32
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101(a)(iv), 23
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101(a)(xiii) and 23
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102(a)(xvi), shall clearly label cell cultured products as "containing cell cultured product" and clearly label plant based products as "vegetarian", "veggie", "vegan", "plant based" or other similar term indicating that the product is plant based;

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125.

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 imminent health hazard exists including, but not limited to, fire, flood, extended interruption of electrical or water service, or sewage backup
, or that an establishment is manufacturing for sale, selling, offering for sale or distributing for sale cultivated meat for human consumption
.

Section 2
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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, 2026
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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.

(END)

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