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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
HOUSE BILL 1126 By: Grego
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to public health and safety; defining
term; prohibiting the manufacture, sell, hold or
offer for sale, or distribut ion of any cultivated
meat; providing punishment for violation; providing
for revocation of certain licenses for violation;
providing the State Department of Health certain
rulemaking authority; providing exemptions; providing
for codification; and providing an e ffective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA :
SECTION 1. 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:
A. 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.
B. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture,
sell, hold or offer for sale, or distribute any cultivated meat
product in this state.
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2. Any person who violates the provisions of this subsection
shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor.
C. 1. 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.
2. 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.
D. The State Department of Health may adopt rules as necessary
to implement this section.
E. 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 gover nmental
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.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
60-1-10578 JL 12/13/24