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Conference committee on HB 1425 proposes two-year moratorium, to restore labeling after delay
Summary
The House–Senate conference committee on House Bill 1425 discussed removing a study requirement, extending a moratorium on lab-grown meat sales from one year to two, and restoring labeling requirements at the end of the moratorium; no formal vote was recorded and the committee recessed.
Beau Baird, chair of the conference committee and representative for House District 44, told conferees the committee planned to remove a study requirement from House Bill 1425 and extend the bill’s moratorium on lab-grown meat sales to two years so the state does not overburden agencies amid a revenue forecast.
"And based off of our forecast that we just received last week, things like that are being stripped out of bills," Baird said. He described the conference committee’s intent to "strip the study out of the bill so that we're not putting any, more burden on our state agencies with the forecast that we have." He added the panel would "push out" the moratorium to two years and "add back in the labeling information that left the House version, at the end of that 2 year…
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