Louisiana legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Louisiana HB783: HEALTH/LDH: Provides relative to the regulation of food and food safety
Status: Signed into law, June 8, 2026
What the bill says
An act To amend and reenact R.S. 3:4102(1) and (10)(b), R.S. 38:2251.1, and R.S. 40:881(A) and to enact R.S. 3:4102(19) and 4109(H), relative to the regulation of food and food safety; to provide relative to the Dairy Stabilization Law; to provide for definitions; to prohibit state agencies from purchasing or serving any non-lactational dairy protein product; to prohibit certain entities from manufacturing, processing, packaging, storing, or distributing non-lactational dairy protein products; to provide for labeling requirements; to prohibit certain products from being labeled as milk…
From the introduced text:
AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 3:4102(1) and (10)(b), R.S. 38:2251.1, and R.S. 40:881(A) and to enact R.S. 3:4102(19) and 4109(H), relative to the regulation of food and food safety; to provide relative to the Dairy Stabilization Law; to provide for definitions; to prohibit state agencies from purchasing or serving any non-lactational dairy protein product; to prohibit certain entities from manufacturing, processing, packaging, storing, or distributing non-lactational dairy protein products; to provide for labeling requirements; to prohibit certain products from being labeled as milk; and to provide for related matters. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana: Section 1. R.S. 3:4102(1) and (10)(b) are hereby amended and reenacted and R.S. 3:4102(19) and 4109(H) are hereby enacted to read as follows: §4102. Definitions As used in this Subpart, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Milk" means the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows (including such secretions when raw, cooled, pasteurized, standardized, homogenized, recombined, or concentrated) which meets applicable requirements of the state health officer. The word "milk" shall be interpreted to include goat, sheep, water buffalo, camel milk and the milk from other hooved animals. * * * Page 1 of CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored are additions. HLS 26RS-251 …