HB1602: A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning agriculture and animals and to make an appropriation.

Page last updated: Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM (America/Indianapolis).

General Information

• Stage: Engrossed House Bill (S)
• Current Chamber: senate
• Origin Chamber: house
• Description: Various food matters.

Legislators

Actions (14 total)

• Mar 3, 2025, 5:36 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture
• Feb 19, 2025, 6:27 AM: Referred to the Senate
• Feb 18, 2025, 8:24 AM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 194: yeas 94, nays 0
• Feb 18, 2025, 8:24 AM: Cosponsor: Senator Doriot
• Feb 18, 2025, 8:23 AM: Senate sponsors: Senators Glick, Schmitt, Byrne
• Feb 17, 2025, 11:54 AM: Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
• Feb 17, 2025, 11:54 AM: Amendment #1 (Culp) prevailed; voice vote
• Feb 13, 2025, 9:11 AM: Representative Bartels added as coauthor
• Feb 13, 2025, 6:02 AM: Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
• Feb 6, 2025, 6:30 AM: Recommitted to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code pursuant to House Rule 126.3
• Feb 6, 2025, 6:10 AM: Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
• Jan 27, 2025, 11:00 AM: Representative Smith H added as coauthor
• Jan 21, 2025, 11:32 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
• Jan 21, 2025, 11:32 AM: Authored by Representative Culp

Digest

Provides that a recipient may appeal to the legislative body an enforcement action issued or taken by a local health officer under IC 16-20-1 in response to a food establishment inspection. Adds provisions concerning limited meat product sales. Prohibits a grocery store from selling, offering for sale, or distributing an alternative meat product misbranded as a meat product. Requires a food manufacturer to label alternative meat products as "THIS IS AN IMITATION MEAT PRODUCT".