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OK SB96

Bill

Status

Engrossed

3/13/2025

Primary Sponsor

Warren Hamilton

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Origin

Senate

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Prohibits the manufacture, sale, holding for sale, or distribution of cultivated meat products in Oklahoma, with violations classified as a misdemeanor

  • Defines "cultivated meat" as meat produced from in vitro animal cell cultures grown outside the animal from which cells were derived

  • Authorizes the State Department of Health to suspend or revoke food seller licenses upon conviction for violations and to adopt implementing rules

  • Exempts federal, state, and local government entities, institutions of higher education, and their formal research partners from the ban for purposes of conducting cultivated meat research

  • Effective date of November 1, 2025

Legislative Description

Public health and safety; prohibiting the manufacture, sell, hold or offef for sale, or distribution of cultivated meat; violation. Effective date.

Last Action

HAs read

5/6/2025

Committee Referrals

Agriculture4/1/2025
Energy and Natural Resources Oversight4/1/2025
Agriculture and Wildlife2/4/2025

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