U.S. Congress legislation · 119th Congress
HB9387: REAL Butter Act
Status: In committee, June 22, 2026
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure consumer choice by requiring truthful labeling of lab-created butter, and for other purposes.
What the bill says
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure consumer choice by requiring truthful labeling of lab-created butter, and for other purposes.
From the introduced text, June 22, 2026:
A BILL To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure consumer choice by requiring truthful labeling of lab-created butter, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Recognizing Engineered Alternatives as Lab-Created Butter Act or the REAL Butter Act . SECTION 2. Ensuring consumer choice by requiring truthful labeling of lab-created butter Section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( 21 U.S.C. 343 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (z) (1) If it is a synthesized butter product or contains such a product and its label does not bear immediately before the name of the product lab-created butter or contains lab-created butter , respectively. (2) For purposes of this and (ii) fails to conform to the standard of identity for butter specified in the Act of March 4, 1923 (42 Stat. 1500). (B) The term butter has the meaning given such term in the Act of March 4, 1923 (42 Stat. 1500). .
Sponsors
- Tony Wied (R, HD-008) · primary sponsor
- Josh Riley (D, HD-019)
- Derrick Van Orden (R, HD-003)
- Claudia Tenney (R, HD-024)
- John Rose (R, HD-006)
- David Schweikert (R, HD-001)
- Tom Tiffany (R, HD-WI-7)
- Pat Harrigan (R, HD-010)
- Bryan Steil (R, HD-001)
- Mike Bost (R, HD-012)
- David Taylor (R, HD-002)
- Scott Fitzgerald (R, HD-005)
Latest actions
- : Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- : Introduced in House
Subjects: Health
Common questions
- What is HB9387?
- HB9387 is a bill in Congress (119th Congress): REAL Butter Act.
- What does HB9387 do?
- In its own words: To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure consumer choice by requiring truthful labeling of lab-created butter, and for other purposes.
- What is the status of HB9387?
- In committee as of June 22, 2026. Latest action: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (June 22, 2026).
- Who sponsored HB9387?
- Tony Wied (R, HD-008), with 11 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for HB9387?
- On the Congress website: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/9387
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