Oklahoma legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Oklahoma SB96: Public health and safety; prohibiting the manufacture, sell, hold or offer for sale, or distribution of cultivated meat; authorizing certain enforcement meassures by the State Department of Health. Effective date.
Status: Passed both chambers, April 30, 2026
What the bill says
An Act relating to public health and safety; defining term; prohibiting the manufacture, sell, hold or offer for sale, or distribution 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. AUTHORS: Remove Representative Bashore as principal House author and substitute with Representative Burns AUTHOR: Add the following Senate coauthor: Deevers AMENDMENT NO. 1…
From the engrossed text, May 6, 2025:
An Act relating to public health and safety; defining term; prohibiting the manufacture, sell, hold or offer for sale, or distribution 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. AUTHORS: Remove Representative Bashore as principal House author and substitute with Representative Burns AUTHOR: Add the following Senate coauthor: Deevers AMENDMENT NO. 1. Strike the title, enacting clause, and entire bill and insert: "An Act relating to public health and safety; defining term; making certain acts unlawful; providing penalties; subjecting food sellers and distributors of cultivated meat products to enforcement measures of the State Department of Health; authorizing the suspension and revocation of licenses for violations; authorizing the adoption of rules; providing construing provision; providing for codification; and providing an effective date. ENGR. H. A. to ENGR. S. B. NO. 96 Page BE I T 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 …