---
type: "Bill"
title: "Misbranding Cultivated Meat Products as Meat"
description: "The act prohibits food processing plants from selling or offering for sale cell-cultivated meat that is misbranded as a meat product. The act also requires food processing plants to clearly label cell-cultivated meat as cell-cultivated meat."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1203"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1203 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Karen McCormick", "Kyle Mullica", "Rod Pelton", "Ty Winter"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/247e5756-6ad9-488f-98b5-2e6a4753ca8d"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1203"
source_hash: "13e32dc0ab787583113075cf7cbbc1c03b74c8d963f1c964359abf26432a65b2"
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-co"]
---

# Colorado HB 25-1203 (2025A) — Misbranding Cultivated Meat Products as Meat

The act prohibits food processing plants from selling or offering for sale cell-cultivated meat that is misbranded as a meat product. The act also requires food processing plants to clearly label cell-cultivated meat as cell-cultivated meat.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_hb1203_s_agr_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/07/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1203_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1203_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/10/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1203_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (03/10/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1203_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (03/26/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1203_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (03/25/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1203_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (04/17/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1203_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **62–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Karen McCormick — primary (person)
- Kyle Mullica — primary (person)
- Rod Pelton — primary (person)
- Ty Winter — primary (person)
- A. Hartsook — cosponsor (person)
- B. Pelton — cosponsor (person)
- B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
- C. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- C. Simpson — cosponsor (person)
- D. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- D. Woog — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
- J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- L. Garcia Sander — cosponsor (person)
- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- M. Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- M. Catlin — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
- M. Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- M. Soper — cosponsor (person)
- P. Lundeen — cosponsor (person)
- R. English — cosponsor (person)
- R. Gonzalez — cosponsor (person)
- R. Keltie — cosponsor (person)
- R. Taggart — cosponsor (person)
- R. Weinberg — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
- Y. Zokaie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources `introduction`
- **2025-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
- **2025-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-03-03T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/247e5756-6ad9-488f-98b5-2e6a4753ca8d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).