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LouisianaHB 5122026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

AGRICULTURE/MEAT: Provides relative to cell cultured food products

Sponsored By: Rodney Schamerhorn (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.

Louisiana restricts cultured food after court ruling

The law covers animal tissue grown from animal cells outside the animal. The ban takes effect only upon a final U.S. Supreme Court ruling that bans on these products are constitutional. Once that condition is met, Louisiana bans making these foods for sale, selling, holding or offering them for sale, and distributing them. It also bans mixing them with meat products and offering those mixtures as food for people. Manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, or distributing these products also violates state meat-inspection rules. Accredited Louisiana colleges and universities may research these products regardless of whether the ruling occurs.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Rodney Schamerhorn

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Beryl Amedée

    Republican • House

  • Chance Keith Henry

    Republican • House

  • Danny McCormick

    Republican • House

  • John E. Wyble

    Republican • House

  • Kimberly Landry Coates

    Republican • House

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Reese "Skip" Broussard

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 149 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/21/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 35 • No: 0

House vote • 5/5/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 100 • No: 0

House vote • 4/28/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 14 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 555.

    5/29/2026House

  2. Effective date: See Act.

    5/29/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/26/2026House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/25/2026House

  5. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/25/2026House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/25/2026Senate

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/21/2026Senate

  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/14/2026Senate

  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/13/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/12/2026Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.

    5/6/2026Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/5/2026House

  13. Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    5/5/2026Senate

  14. Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/29/2026House

  15. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2026.

    4/29/2026House

  16. Reported with amendments (14-0).

    4/28/2026House

  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.

    3/9/2026House

  18. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

    2/27/2026House

  19. Prefiled.

    2/26/2026House

  20. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.

    2/26/2026House

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