SSB 3162: SSB 3162

What it does

GENERAL. This bill prohibits the misbranding of certain food products that are manufactured to resemble meat products that are not derived from the processing (slaughter) of certain domesticated agricultural food animals (animals), including cattle and bison, goats, sheep and lambs, swine, chickens, and turkeys. A manufactured meat product is formulated as a cultivated-meat product, or either an insect-meat product or plant-meat product. In all three cases, the food product has one or more sensory attributes that resemble a type of tissue originating from a species of food animal but that, in lieu of being derived from slaughter, is derived from manufacturing cells grown in vitro, meaning outside the food animal’s body, or is derived from manufacturing parts of insects or plants (new Code chapter 137E).

Senate subcommittee · named February 7, 2024

• Sen. Dawn Driscoll (R) · dawn.driscoll@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Tony Bisignano (D) · tony.bisignano@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Ken Rozenboom (R) · ken.rozenboom@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 7 for, 1 against

For: Iowa Cattlemen's Association; Iowa Corn Growers Association; Iowa Department of Agriculture & Land Stewardship; Iowa Pork Producers Association; Iowa Soybean Association; Iowa Turkey Federation; North Central Poultry Association

Against: Plant Based Foods Association

In plain words

1. February 7, 2024Filed in the Senate and sent to the Agriculture committee
2. February 7, 2024Senate subcommittee named: Driscoll, Bisignano and Rozenboom
3. February 12, 2024Subcommittee recommended passing it with changes
4. February 15, 2024Approved by the Senate committee, and given a new number: SF 2391