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ENGROSSED HOUSE
BILL NO. 2829 By: Burns of the House
and
Green of the Senate
An Act relating to public health and safety; defining
term; prohibiting the manufacture, sell, hold or
offer for sale, or distribut ion of 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 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, 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.
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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.
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 provid ed 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 subsectio n 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 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.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
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Passed the House of Representatives the 25th day of March, 2025.
Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives
Passed the Senate the _____ day of __________, 2025.
Presiding Officer of the Senate