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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 555
October 26, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives MOSES, SORTWELL, ARMSTRONG,
BEHNKE, BODDEN, BRANDTJEN, DITTRICH, EDMING, GOEBEN, GUNDRUM,
GUSTAFSON, S. JOHNSON, O'CONNOR, ORTIZ-VELEZ, PENTERMAN, ROZAR, SCHMIDT,
SCHUTT and SNYDER, cosponsored by Senators QUINN, TOMCZYK and SPREITZER.
Referred to Committee on Agriculture.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to create 97.50 of the statutes; relating to: labeling a food product as
containing lab-grown animal cells, providing an exemption from emergency
rule procedures, and providing a penalty.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under this bill, no person may sell or offer for sale a food product that contains
cultured animal cells or cultured animal tissue derived from cultured animal cells
unless the food product is labeled as containing lab-grown animal cells. The bill
defines “animal” as a mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, or mollusk. The bill also
requires the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection to
promulgate emergency rules to implement the prohibition in the bill.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 97.50 of the statutes is created to read:
97.50 Labeling food products that contain cultured animal cells or
tissue. (1) In this section, “animal” means a mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, or
mollusk.
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(2) No person may sell or offer for sale a food product that contains cultured
animal cells or cultured animal tissue derived from cultured animal cells unless the
food product is labeled as containing lab-grown animal cells.
(3) A person who violates sub. (2) may be fined not less than $100 nor more than
$500 or imprisoned for not more than 3 months, or both, for a first offense, and may
be fined not less than $500 nor more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not less than 6
months nor more than one year, or both, for each subsequent offense.
SECTION 2.0Nonstatutory provisions.
(1) EMERGENCY RULEMAKING. The department of agriculture, trade and
consumer protection shall promulgate emergency rules under s. 227.24 necessary to
implement s. 97.50. Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (a) and (3), the department is not
required to provide evidence that promulgating a rule under this subsection as an
emergency rule is necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health, safety,
or welfare and is not required to provide a finding of emergency for a rule
promulgated under this subsection.
SECTION 3.0Effective dates. This act takes effect on the day after publication,
except as follows:
(1) The treatment of s. 97.50 takes effect on the first day of the 7th month
beginning after publication.
(END)
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