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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 1126 By: Grego of the House
and
Pederson of the Senate
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
An Act relating to public health and safety; defining
terms; prohibiting the misbranding of food;
prohibiting the distribution of, offer for sale, and
the selling of any falsely advertised or misbranded
food; providing when food is misbranded; providing
when a manufactured-protein food product is falsely
advertised; requiring the State Department of Health
to investigate all credible claims of misbranded or
falsely advertised food ; providing punishment for
violation; providing for revocation of certain
licenses for violation; providing the State
Department of Health certain rulemaking authority;
providing for codification; and providing an
effective 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, unle ss there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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A. As used in this act:
1. "Agricultural food animal" means any domesticated animal
belonging to the bovine, caprine, ovine, or porcine species, or any
domesticated chicken or turkey;
2. "Cultivated-protein food product" means a food product
having one or more sensory attributes that resemble a type of tissue
originating from an agricultural food anim al but that, in lieu of
being derived from meat processing, is derived from manufacturing
cells or nonanimal sources, including processes in which one or more
stem cells are initially isolated from an agricultural food animal,
are grown in vitro, and may b e manipulated, as part of a
manufacturing operation;
3. "Identifying meat term" means any word or phrase that
states, indicates, suggests, or describes a meat product and
includes any:
a. common name for the species of the agricultural food
animal subject to slaughter and processing, including
calf, chicken, cow, goat, hog, kid, lamb, pig,
poultry, sheep, or turkey,
b. any characteristic of a species of the agricultural
food animal subject to slaughter and processing,
including beef, broiler, cabrito, chev on, fryer, lamb,
mutton, pork, poulet, veal, or yearling, and
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c. common name used to descr ibe a major cut of a meat of
an agricultural food animal slaughtered and processed,
including a major meat cut or any other common name
that a reasonable purchaser wo uld immediately and
exclusively associate with a meat product prepared for
sale in normal commercial channels, including bacon,
bologna, bone, brat, bratwurst, brisket, burger, butt,
chop, chuck, cold cut, cutlet, filet, flat iron,
frank, frankfurter, ham, hamburger, hock, hot dog,
jerky, liverwurst, loin, London broil, lunch meat, New
York strip, pepperoni, porterhouse, rib, ribeye,
roast, salami, sausage, shank, sirloin, sparerib,
tenderloin, or any comparable word or phrase;
4. "Insect-protein food product" means a food product having
one or more sensory attributes that resemble a type of ti ssue
originating from an agricultural food animal but that, in lieu of
being derived from meat processing, is derived from manufacturing
insect parts;
5. "Manufactured-protein food product" means a cultivated
protein food product, insect -protein food product, or plant-protein
food product containing more than a trace amount of plant -protein
food products;
6. "Plant-protein food product" means a food product having on e
or more sensory attributes that resemble a type of tissue found in a
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species of agricultural food animal but that, in lieu of being
derived from meat processing, is derived from manufacturing plant
parts; and
7. "Qualifying term" means a word, compound word, or phrase
that would clearly disclose to a reasonable purchaser of meat
products that a food product is not a meat product including cell -
cultivated, cell cultured, fake, grown in a lab, imitation, insect,
insect-based, insect protein, lab -created, lab-grown, meat-free,
meatless, plant, plant -based, vegan, vegetable, vegetarian, veggie,
or any comparable word or phrase.
B. No person shall falsely advertise or misbrand any food or
distribute, offer for sale, or sell any misbranded food.
C. A food shall be deemed to be falsely advertised or
misbranded if:
1. For any manufactured -protein food product that is labeled
with an identifying meat term, such manufactured -protein food
product is not labeled with a conspicuous and prominent qualifying
term in close proximity to the identifying meat term; or
2. For any manufactured -protein food product that is labeled
with an identifying meat term and offered for sale at a food
establishment, such manufactured -protein food product is not labeled
in a manner that is clearly and distinctly separate from any product
that is made from tissue originating from any agricultural food
animal.
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D. A manufactured-protein food product is falsely advertised or
misbranded if:
1. All labeling or advertising for such manufactur ed-protein
food product that lists an identifying meat term does not include a
conspicuous and prominent qualifying term in close proximity to the
identifying meat term; or
2. For any manufactured -protein food product that is offered
for sale at a food es tablishment, such manufactured -protein food
product is not stored in a manner that:
a. keeps such product separate from tissue originating
from agricultural food animals, and
b. uses distinctive shelf tags or other posted
representations to identify and di stinguish such
manufactured-protein food product from tissue
originating from agricultural food animals.
E. The State Department of Health shall investigate all
credible complaints that food products are falsely advertised or
misbranded as meat products.
F. Any person who violates the provisions of this act shall,
upon conviction, be guilty o f a misdemeanor.
G. 1. A seller of food under Sections 1 -1118, 1-1118.1, and 1-
1119 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes that violates this shall
be subject to all enforcement measures as provided by rule of the
State Department of Health.
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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 licens ed seller of food
for a violation of this act.
H. The State Department of Health may adop t rules as necessary
to implement this section.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON ENERG Y AND NATURAL RESOURCES
OVERSIGHT, dated 02/26/2025 - DO PASS, As Amended and Coauthored.