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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR ENGROSSED
SENATE BILL NO. 96 By: Hamilton and Bullard of the
Senate
and
Bashore of the House
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
An Act relating to agriculture; amending 2 O.S. 2021,
Section 5-107, which relates to the Oklahoma Meat
Consumer Protection Act; defining terms; requiring
disclosure; providing for promulgation of rules; and
providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 2 O.S. 2021, Section 5 -107, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 5-107. A. There is hereby created the “Oklahoma Meat
Consumer Protection Act” .
B. As used in the O klahoma Meat Consumer Protection Act:
1. “Cell-cultured food product”, also referred to as lab -grown
meat, cultivated meat, clean meat, in vitro meat, imitation meat,
synthetic meat, and fake meat, means a food product developed from
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animal cell cultures rather than through the traditional raising and
slaughtering of livestock. Cell -cultured food product does not
include imitation meat made of non -meat ingredients including, but
not limited to, plant -based protein;
2. “Insect-protein food product” means a food product having
one or more sensory attributes that resemble a type of tissue
originating from an agricultural food animal but that, in lieu of
being derived from meat processing, is derived from manufacturing
insect parts;
3. “Livestock” means anim als defined by paragraph 9 of Section
1-3 of Title 2 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
2. 4. “Meat” means any edible portion of livestock or part
thereof;
3. 5. “Misrepresent” means the use of any untrue, misleading ,
or deceptive oral or wr itten statement, adver tisement, label,
display, picture, illustration , or sample; and
4. 6. “Represent” means the use of any form of oral or written
statement, advertisement, label, display, picture, illustration , or
sample.
C. Pursuant to the Oklahoma Meat Consumer Protectio n Act, no
person advertising, offering for sale , or selling meat shall engage
in any misleading or deceptive practices, including, but not limited
to, the following:
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1. Misrepresenting the cut, grade, brand, trade name , or weight
or measure of any meat, o r misrepresenting a product as meat that is
not derived from harvested production livestock; provided, product
packaging for plant-based items shall not be considered in violation
of the provisions of this paragraph so long as the packaging
displays that the product is derived from plant -based sources in
type that is uniform in size and prominence to the name of the
product;
2. Using a USDA-quality grade on a product not graded by the
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) or Oklahoma
Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry (ODAFF); or
3. Failing to fully and conspicuously disclose the correct
government grade for any product if the product is represented as
having been graded by the USDA or ODAFF ; or
4. Failing to fully and conspicuously di sclose that a product
is a cell-cultured food product or is an insect -protein food
product.
D. The State Board of Agriculture shall promulgate rules
necessary to enforce compliance with the Oklahoma Meat Consumer
Protection Act.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
OVERSIGHT, dated 04/16/2025 - DO PASS, As Amended.