Indiana 2025 Regular Session Status: Enacted Bipartisan · 4 R · 3 D cosponsors

HB 1425 — Food matters.

Last action — Signed by the Governor

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed House
  4. ✓
    Passed Senate
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 13, 2025. Enacted.

Signed by Governor Mike Braun (Republican) on May 06, 2025.

Odds of enactment

High chance

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Prognosis

Likely to advance 78% · moderate confidence

  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 7 sponsors

    3 primary, 4 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Bipartisan support

    Sponsored across 2 parties (4 R · 3 D) — cross-party backing.

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Summary

Establishes a two year moratorium on the sale of cultivated meat products in Indiana. Prohibits a person from misbranding a cultivated meat product as a meat product. Provides that the cultivated meat product is misbranded as a meat product if the cultivated meat product is: (1) advertised; (2) labeled; or (3) offered for sale or sold; in a manner that does not clearly indicate that it is a cultivated meat product or not in accordance with rules adopted by BOAH. Requires BOAH to administer the chapter.

Bill Text

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Action History

  1. Signed by the Governor

  2. Public Law 229

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate

  4. Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 517: yeas 43, nays 7

  5. Signed by the Speaker

  6. Signed by the President Pro Tempore

  7. CCR # 1 filed in the Senate

  8. CCR # 1 filed in the House

  9. Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 541: yeas 74, nays 15

  10. Senate conferees appointed: Leising and Yoder

  11. Senate advisors appointed: Qaddoura and Glick

  12. Motion to dissent filed

  13. House dissented from Senate amendments

  14. House conferees appointed: Baird and Moed

  15. House advisors appointed: King, Aylesworth, Sweet, Bauer and Pfaff

  16. Returned to the House with amendments

  17. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 272: yeas 41, nays 6

  18. Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed

  19. Amendment #8 (Leising) prevailed; voice vote

  20. Senator Randolph added as cosponsor

  21. Committee report: do pass, adopted

  22. First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture

  23. Referred to the Senate

  24. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 158: yeas 89, nays 0

  25. Senate sponsors: Senators Leising and Glick

  26. Amendment #1 (Baird) prevailed; voice vote

  27. Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed

  28. Representative Bauer added as coauthor

  29. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

  30. Representative Moed added as coauthor

  31. Recommitted to Committee on Judiciary pursuant to House Rule 126.2

  32. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

  33. Representative King added as coauthor

  34. First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

  35. Authored by Representative Baird

Sponsors

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3 sponsors · 4 co-sponsors · 143 not signed on

Sponsors (3)

Co-sponsors (4)

Not signed on (143)

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Frequently asked questions

What does HB 1425 do?
Establishes a two year moratorium on the sale of cultivated meat products in Indiana. Prohibits a person from misbranding a cultivated meat product as a meat product. Provides that the cultivated meat product is misbranded as a meat product if the cultivated meat product is: (1) advertised; (2) labeled; or (3) offered for sale or sold; in a manner that does not clearly indicate that it is a cultivated meat product or not in accordance with rules adopted by BOAH. Requires BOAH to administer the chapter.
Who sponsors HB 1425?
HB 1425 is sponsored by Lonnie Randolph (Democrat), Susan Glick (Republican), Jean Leising (Republican), Maureen Bauer (Democrat), Justin Moed (Democrat), Joanna King (Republican), and Beau Baird (Republican).
What is the current status of HB 1425?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 13, 2025. Enacted.
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