AB 515 — Relating to: labeling food as a type of dairy product or as a dairy ingredient and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

- 2020 LEGISLATURE LRBa0672/1LRB-4310/1 KP:cdcKP:skw ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 1, TO ASSEMBLY BILL 515 October 22,7, 2019 - OfferedIntroduced by RepresentativeRepresentatives RANEL.TRANEL , OLDENBURG , DITTRICH, EDMING , AMES , KULP, NOVAK , PETRYK, PRONSCHINSKE , QUINN , SKOWRONSKI , SUMMERFIELD , TAUCHEN , USLER , ANDER M EER, VORPAGEL , WITTKE, BORN and THIESFELDT, cosponsored by Senators MARKLEIN , ERNIER , EYEN , EM AHIEU , RINGHAND and TIFFANY.

AtReferred theto locationsCommittee indicated,on amendAgriculture. the bill as follows:

1.A N A CT to create 97.26 of the statutes;

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(4)Analysis (a),by no".the Legislative Reference Bureau Under this bill, no person may label a food product as, or sell or offer for sale a food product that is labeled as, a type of dairy product, such as cream, yogurt, or cheese, unless the food product is a dairy product.

2.This prohibition applies to most dairy products but excludes milk and other products derived solely from the milk of cows or other hooved or camelid mammals.

PageAlso, 2,under linethe 5:bill, no person may label a food product as, or sell or offer for sale a food product that is labeled as, a type of dairy ingredient unless the food product is derived from cow's milk, or hooved or camelid mammal's milk or a type of milk that meets certain specifications under federal law.

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(4)For (b),further no".information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.

3.The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

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delete97.26 linesof 11the tostatutes 14is andcreated substitute:to read:

“(3)- RULES.2020 Legislature - 2 - LRB-4310/1 KP:skw ASSEMBLY BILL 515 SECTION 1 97.26 Labeling food as a type of dairy product.

(a)(1) TheD departmentAIRY shallPRODUCTS. promulgate rules to implement sub.

(1).No person may label a food product as, or sell or offer for sale a food product that is labeled as, a type of dairy product described in s.

(b)97.20 The(1) department(b) shall3. promulgate rules to implement sub.

(2).to 5.

(4)or ENACTMENTa BYsimilar OTHERterm STATES.unless the food product is a dairy product, as defined in s.

(a)97.20 As(1) soon(b). as possible after at least 10 states out of the group of states composed of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia enact a prohibition that is substantially similar to sub.

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(1).(a) Milk, lowfat milk, skim milk, or nonfat dry milk.

This(b) paragraphA doesproduct notdescribed applyin after21 JuneCFR 30,131.110 2031.to 131.147.

(b)(c) AsHooved soonor ascamelid possiblemammals' aftermilk, atas leastdefined 10in statess. out of the group of states composed of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia enact a prohibition that is substantially similar to sub.

(2),97.20 the(1) department(fm). shall submit to the legislative reference bureau for publication in the Wisconsin Administrative Register a notice specifying the date that at least 10 of the states listed in this paragraph have enacted a prohibition substantially similar to sub.

(2).(3) RULES.

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(5)SECTION A2.Effective PPLICABILITY.(a)date. Subsections (1) and (3) (a) do not apply if a notice under sub.

(4)(1) (a)This hasact nottakes beeneffect published.on the first day of the 7th month beginning after publication.

(b) Subsections (2) and (3) (b) do not apply if a notice under sub.

(4) (b) has not been published.”.