--- type: "Bill" title: "Food matters." description: "Establishes a two year moratorium on the sale of cultivated meat products in Indiana. Prohibits a person from misbranding a cultivated meat product as a meat product. Provides that the cultivated meat product is misbranded as a meat product if the cultivated meat product is: (1) advertised; (2) labeled; or (3) offered for sale or sold; in a manner that does not clearly indicate that it is a cultivated meat product or not in accordance with rules adopted by BOAH. Requires BOAH to administer the chapter." jurisdiction: "us/states/in" legislature: "Indiana General Assembly" session: "2025" identifier: "HB 1425" citation: "Indiana HB 1425 (2025)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["AGRICULTURE; Food and Food Processing", "CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Liabilities", "Damages", "and Penalties", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Creation of New Offenses"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Beau Baird", "Jean Leising", "Susan Glick"] version_count: 6 action_count: 35 vote_count: 4 first_action: "2025-01-13" last_action: "2025-05-06" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f2efa7b-1c49-46b4-9453-ccdc6049d3ad" source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1425" source_hash: "15ba0e0b0f7c6b18622ed0aaa4858e25414d38ac9c67521f35a716e2f12e2ab4" vintage: "2026-07-01" source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump" retrieved_at: "2026-07-06" confidence: "reported" tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"] --- # Indiana HB 1425 (2025) — Food matters. Establishes a two year moratorium on the sale of cultivated meat products in Indiana. Prohibits a person from misbranding a cultivated meat product as a meat product. Provides that the cultivated meat product is misbranded as a meat product if the cultivated meat product is: (1) advertised; (2) labeled; or (3) offered for sale or sold; in a manner that does not clearly indicate that it is a cultivated meat product or not in accordance with rules adopted by BOAH. Requires BOAH to administer the chapter. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1425/HB1425.06.ENGS.pdf) 2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1425/HB1425.04.ENGH.pdf) 3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1425/HB1425.07.ENRS.pdf) 4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1425/HB1425.03.COMH.pdf) 5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1425/HB1425.05.COMS.pdf) 6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1425/HB1425.01.INTR.pdf) ## Votes - HB 1425 - Baird — **74–15** (pass) · lower - HB 1425 - Leising — **43–7** (pass) · upper - HB 1425 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **41–6** (pass) · upper - HB 1425 - Baird - 3rd Reading — **89–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Beau Baird — primary (person) - Jean Leising — primary (person) - Susan Glick — primary (person) - Joanna King — coauthor (person) - Justin Moed — coauthor (person) - Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person) - Maureen Bauer — coauthor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-01-13** Authored by Representative Baird - **2025-01-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development `reading-1, referral-committee` - **2025-01-27** Representative King added as coauthor - **2025-01-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage` - **2025-01-27** Recommitted to Committee on Judiciary pursuant to House Rule 126.2 - **2025-01-27** Representative Moed added as coauthor - **2025-02-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage` - **2025-02-04** Representative Bauer added as coauthor - **2025-02-11** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2` - **2025-02-11** Amendment #1 (Baird) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage` - **2025-02-14** Referred to the Senate `referral` - **2025-02-13** Senate sponsors: Senators Leising and Glick - **2025-02-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 158: yeas 89, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3` - **2025-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture `reading-1, referral-committee` - **2025-03-03** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage` - **2025-03-13** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor - **2025-03-20** Amendment #8 (Leising) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage` - **2025-03-20** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2` - **2025-03-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 272: yeas 41, nays 6 `passage, reading-3, reading-3` - **2025-03-25** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt` - **2025-04-21** House advisors appointed: King, Aylesworth, Sweet, Bauer and Pfaff - **2025-04-21** House conferees appointed: Baird and Moed - **2025-04-21** House dissented from Senate amendments - **2025-04-21** Motion to dissent filed `filing` - **2025-04-22** Senate advisors appointed: Qaddoura and Glick - **2025-04-22** Senate conferees appointed: Leising and Yoder - **2025-04-23** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 541: yeas 74, nays 15 - **2025-04-23** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing` - **2025-04-23** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing` - **2025-04-29** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage` - **2025-04-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage` - **2025-04-24** Signed by the Speaker `passage` - **2025-05-06** Public Law 229 `became-law` - **2025-05-06** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature` - **2025-04-24** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 517: yeas 43, nays 7 ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0f2efa7b-1c49-46b4-9453-ccdc6049d3ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).