# Mississippi HB 913: Meat labeling; require accurate labeling of meat and nonmeat products by processors, retail and food establishment prior to final sale.

Mississippi HB 913, Meat labeling; require accurate labeling of meat and nonmeat products by processors, retail and food establishment prior to final sale., is a 2025 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Vince Mangold (Republican); status signed, last action 2025-04-17 (Approved by Governor); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-27).

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## Facts
- Bill: Mississippi HB 913
- State: Mississippi
- Session: 2025 Regular Session
- Title: Meat labeling; require accurate labeling of meat and nonmeat products by processors, retail and food establishment prior to final sale.
- Status: signed
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-01-17
- Last action: 2025-04-17, Approved by Governor
- Sponsor: Vince Mangold (Republican)
- Cosponsors: 2
- Subjects: Agriculture
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 4 (324 yes, 1 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 5

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- New compliance costs for food businesses: cost, low. Distributors and wholesalers must tell stores and food service businesses whether covered products are meat or nonmeat, and provide required origin certification. The agriculture commissioner may also require verifiable records from people who prepare, store, handle, or distribute covered products…
- Public schools and colleges restrict food buys: cost, low. Mississippi public colleges, community colleges, and local school boards must set purchasing policies to avoid buying food misbranded as meat or cultivated-protein food products. These rules govern public institutions, not family purchases.
- Mississippi bans cultivated meat foods: cost, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, businesses cannot make or sell food in Mississippi that contains cultured animal tissue grown outside the source animal. This limits the covered products available to consumers in the state.
- Clearer meat labels for shoppers: mixed, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, covered businesses must tell buyers whether products are authentic meat or nonmeat. Plant-, insect-, and other covered protein products cannot be labeled as meat; when a covered product uses a meat term, a clear qualifying term must appear next to it. Trace amounts of plant…
- Inspections and penalties for meat labels: mixed, low. The agriculture department must inspect covered products after a credible complaint about false meat labeling; routine inspections do not have to check for mislabeling. It must stop sales when it has reasonable cause to suspect a product is mislabeled, and regulators may secure or dispose of confir…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Vince Mangold (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Lester Carpenter (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Jeff Hale (Republican), House

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-04-01 | Senate | Conference Report Adopted | pass | 49 | 0 |   |
| 2025-03-31 | House | Conference Report Adopted | pass | 111 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025-03-06 | Senate | Passed As Amended | pass | 49 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-01-29 | House | Passed | pass | 115 | 1 | 1 |

## Actions (20)

- 2025-04-17: Approved by Governor (legislature)
- 2025-04-07: Enrolled Bill Signed (Senate)
- 2025-04-07: Enrolled Bill Signed (House)
- 2025-04-01: Conference Report Adopted (Senate)
- 2025-03-31: Conference Report Adopted (House)
- 2025-03-28: Conference Report Filed (House)
- 2025-03-28: Conference Report Filed (Senate)
- 2025-03-17: Conferees Named Whaley,Berry,Hill (Senate)
- 2025-03-11: Conferees Named Pigott,Mangold,Wallace (House)
- 2025-03-10: Decline to Concur/Invite Conf (House)
- 2025-03-06: Returned For Concurrence (Senate)
- 2025-03-06: Immediate Release (Senate)
- 2025-03-06: Passed As Amended (Senate)
- 2025-03-06: Amended (Senate)
- 2025-02-27: Title Suff Do Pass As Amended (Senate)
- 2025-02-17: Referred To Agriculture (Senate)
- 2025-01-30: Transmitted To Senate (House)
- 2025-01-29: Passed (House)
- 2025-01-28: Title Suff Do Pass (House)
- 2025-01-17: Referred To Agriculture (House)

## Bill text

- As Introduced: [HTML](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0913IN.htm), [PDF](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/HB/0900-0999/HB0913IN.pdf)
- As Passed: [HTML](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0913PS.htm), [PDF](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/HB/0900-0999/HB0913PS.pdf)
- Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted): [HTML](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/sam/HB0913_S_Cmte_Amend_01.htm), [PDF](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB0913_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
- Enrolled: [HTML](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0913SG.htm), [PDF](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/HB/0900-0999/HB0913SG.pdf)

## Related bills

- HB 1341: MS Health Care Industry Zone Act; extend repealer on act and related tax incentives. (signed)
- SB 2517: "MS Intercollegiate Athletics Compensation Rights Act" and "Uniform Athletes Agent Act"; bring forward. (signed)
- HB 856: Pharmacy Practice Act; extend repealer on and make various changes to. (signed)
- HB 958: Department of Information Technology Services; revise certain provisions relating to acquisition of technology services. (signed)
- HB 920: Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; authorize for supporters of various organizations. (signed)
- HB 602: Crawfish and seafood; provide country of origin labeling requirements for. (signed)

## Sources
- [As Introduced (HTML)](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0913IN.htm)
- [As Introduced (PDF)](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/HB/0900-0999/HB0913IN.pdf)
- [As Passed (HTML)](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0913PS.htm)
- [As Passed (PDF)](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/HB/0900-0999/HB0913PS.pdf)
- [Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (HTML)](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/sam/HB0913_S_Cmte_Amend_01.htm)
- [Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (PDF)](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB0913_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
- [Enrolled (HTML)](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0913SG.htm)
- [Enrolled (PDF)](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/HB/0900-0999/HB0913SG.pdf)

## Related
- [HB 1341: MS Health Care Industry Zone Act; extend repealer on act and related tax incent…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MS-HB1341-2025)
- [SB 2517: "MS Intercollegiate Athletics Compensation Rights Act" and "Uniform Athletes Ag…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MS-SB2517-2025)
- [HB 856: Pharmacy Practice Act; extend repealer on and make various changes to.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MS-HB856-2025)
- [HB 958: Department of Information Technology Services; revise certain provisions relati…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MS-HB958-2025)
- [HB 920: Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; authorize for supporters of various orga…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MS-HB920-2025)
- [HB 602: Crawfish and seafood; provide country of origin labeling requirements for.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MS-HB602-2025)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MS-HB913-2025 (as of 2026-10-27).