republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/hb-1425.md

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Bill	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.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	HB 1425	Indiana HB 1425 (2025)	bill	AGRICULTURE; Food and Food Processing CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Liabilities Damages and Penalties CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Creation of New Offenses	enacted	Beau Baird Jean Leising Susan Glick	6	35	4	2025-01-13	2025-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/0f2efa7b-1c49-46b4-9453-ccdc6049d3ad	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1425	15ba0e0b0f7c6b18622ed0aaa4858e25414d38ac9c67521f35a716e2f12e2ab4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. Engrossed House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
5. House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
6. Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/0f2efa7b-1c49-46b4-9453-ccdc6049d3ad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).