Comparing HB 2829 → HB 61 — Cultivated meat-prohibition.

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ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL NO.
S TATE OF W YOMING 26LSO-0391 HOUSE BILL NO.
2829 By:
HB0061 Cultivated meat-prohibition.
Burns of the House and Green of the Senate 5 7 An Act relating to public health and safety;
Sponsored by:
defining term;
Representative(s) Strock and Brown, G A BILL for AN ACT relating to public health and safety;
prohibiting the manufacture, sell, hold or offer for sale, or distribution of cultivated meat;
prohibiting the manufacture, sale and distribution of cultivated meat for human consumption;
providing punishment for violation;
providing definitions;
providing for revocation of certain licenses for violation;
providing penalties;
providing the State Department of Health certain rulemaking authority;
and providing for effective dates.
providing exemptions;
6 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
providing for codification;
8 Section 1.
and providing an effective date.
W.S.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
35-7-110(a) by creating a new paragraph (xxxii) and by renumbering (xxxii) as (xxxiii), 35-7-111(a) by creating a new paragraph (xiv), 35-7-119(e)(ii) and 35-7-125(a) are amended to read:
SECTION 1.
35-7-110.
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:
Definitions.
A.
(a) As used in this act:
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.
1 HB0061 STATE OF WYOMING 26LSO-0391 (xxxii) "Cultivated meat" means meat that is grown entirely in a laboratory from cultured animal cells rather than harvested from an animal.
ENGR.
Cultured animal cells includes cells collected from a living or recently slaughtered animal which are grown for the purposes of creating cultivated meat;
H.
8 (xxxii)(xxxiii) "This act" means W.S.
B.
35-7-109 through 35-7-126.
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35-7-111.
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Prohibited acts.
1.
(a) No person shall:
It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, sell, hold or offer for sale, or distribute any cultivated meat product in this state.
(xiv) Manufacture for sale, sell, offer for sale or distribute for sale cultivated meat for human consumption in this state.
2.
35-7-119.
Any person who violates the provisions of this subsection shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Fair packaging and labeling provisions.
C.
(e) The department shall promulgate rules with respect to labeling.
1.
Every retailer and every wholesaler HB0061 STATE OF WYOMING 26LSO-0391 who sells or offers for sale in this state through an establishment or otherwise any:
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.
4 (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.
2.
11-26-101(a), 11-32-101(a)(iv), 23-1-101(a)(xiii) and 23-1-102(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;
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.
35-7-125.
D.
Summary suspension of a license.
The State Department of Health may adopt rules as necessary to implement this section.
(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 HB0061 STATE OF WYOMING 26LSO-0391 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.
E.
7 Section 2.
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.
The department of agriculture shall promulgate all rules necessary to implement this act.
SECTION 2.
Section 3.
This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
(a) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (b) of this section, this act is effective July 1, 2026.
ENGR.
(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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2829 Page 2 Passed the House of Representatives the 25th day of March, 2025.
3 Presiding Officer of the House of Representatives 6 Passed the Senate the _____ day of __________, 2025.
8 Presiding Officer of the Senate ENGR.
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