OhioHB 10136th General Assembly (2025-2026)HouseWALLET

Regulate imitation meat and egg products

Sponsored By: Jack K. Daniels (Republican), Roy Klopfenstein (Republican)

Signed by Governor

AgricultureFood RegulationEducationHigher EducationPrimary and Secondary EducationHealth and Human ServicesPublic Assistance

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

8 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 4 costs, 1 mixed.

Agriculture fund supports broader administrative work

Ohio's agriculture director can use the Animal and Consumer Protection Fund to administer the full livestock dealer and broker chapter. The authorized uses also include related rules and state laws covering livestock care, dangerous wild animals, and animal disease. This provision specifies no new appropriation or available funding amount.

Counties can hire deputy bee inspectors

Ohio counties can appoint deputy bee inspectors with the agriculture director's approval. County boards set their salaries and may pay qualifying inspection expenses. Salary and expense payments must go to the director for review before the county approves payment. The law specifies no payment amount.

Trained workers can apply pesticides without licenses

Trained servicepersons can apply restricted-use pesticides without their own applicator license under a commercial applicator's direct supervision. A private applicator's trained immediate family members and subordinate employees can also qualify for supervised use without their own license. Users must meet the agriculture director's training standards and follow the supervising applicator's instructions and control. The private applicator remains responsible and must be available when needed, but need not be physically present. These exceptions do not apply when the pesticide label says otherwise.

Ohio seeks grocery benefit product limits

The law requires waiver requests if federal officials approve cultivated-protein foods for SNAP or WIC purchases. For WIC, Ohio's health director must request permission to exclude those foods. For SNAP, the job and family services director must request the same exclusion. The law does not itself exclude these foods; an exclusion requires federal waiver approval.

Schools and colleges face food purchase limits

Ohio school districts and the state education department must adopt policies against buying covered misbranded meat or egg foods and cultivated-protein foods. Community schools must follow the restriction through their sponsor contracts. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics schools and college-preparatory boarding schools must follow it as school districts. State colleges and universities must also adopt purchase policies, but their research purchases are exempt.

Clearer labels for meat and egg alternatives

Ohio food processors cannot sell covered manufactured-protein or fabricated-egg foods with misleading meat or egg labels. These rules also cover foods containing those products. A meat or egg name must have a clear, prominent qualifying term close to it.

Pesticide applicators face training and record rules

Only people with the required Ohio pesticide license can directly supervise restricted-use pesticide applications. The covered agricultural license limits use to producing farm goods on land the licensee or employer owns or rents. The agriculture director must set training standards for supervised restricted-use workers; servicepersons must receive training for their pesticide work. Records must cover commercial applicators' applications and those made by their directly supervised servicepersons. Private applicators must keep restricted-use application records, including applications by supervised immediate family members and subordinate employees.

Food processors face fines, keep registration

Ohio's agriculture department must inspect food inventory after a credible meat-or-egg misbranding complaint, but routine inspections need not check this. Existing food-enforcement rules apply when the department has reasonable cause to believe a processor is selling covered misbranded food. Violators face up to $10,000 per violation; each continuing day counts separately, and payments go to Ohio's general revenue fund. The attorney general must file a collection case after the agriculture director's written request. However, the director cannot suspend or revoke a processor's registration for breaking this rule.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Cosponsors

Adam C. Bird
Republican • House
Adam Mathews
Republican • House
Andrea White
Republican • House
Angela N. King
Republican • House
Bernard Willis
Republican • House
Beth Lear
Republican • House
Bill Reineke
Republican • Senate
Bob Peterson
Republican • House
Brian Lorenz
Republican • House
Cindy Abrams
Republican • House
D. J. Swearingen
Republican • House
David Thomas
Republican • House
Elgin Rogers, Jr.
Democratic • House
Gary Click
Republican • House
George F. Lang
Republican • Senate
Heidi Workman
Republican • House
Ismail Mohamed
Democratic • House
James M. Hoops
Republican • House
Jane M. Timken
Republican • Senate
Jason Stephens
Republican • House
Jean Schmidt
Republican • House
Jeff LaRe
Republican • House
Jennifer Gross
Republican • House
Jerry C. Cirino
Republican • Senate
Jodi Salvo
Republican • House
Joseph A. Miller, III
Democratic • House
Josh Williams
Republican • House
Justin Pizzulli
Republican • House
Kellie Deeter
Republican • House
Kevin D. Miller
Republican • House
Kevin Ritter
Republican • House
Kristina D. Roegner
Republican • Senate
Marilyn John
Republican • House
Mark Hiner
Republican • House
Mark Johnson
Republican • House
Mark Romanchuk
Republican • Senate
Mark Sigrist
Democratic • House
Matthew Kishman
Republican • House
Melanie Miller
Republican • House
Michael D. Dovilla
Republican • House
Mike Odioso
Republican • House
Monica Robb Blasdel
Republican • House
Munira Abdullahi
Democratic • House
Nick Santucci
Republican • House
Paula Hicks-Hudson
Democratic • Senate
Phil Plummer
Republican • House
Rodney Creech
Republican • House
Ron Ferguson
Republican • House
Sandra O'Brien
Republican • Senate
Sarah Fowler Arthur
Republican • House
Sean P. Brennan
Democratic • House
Steve Demetriou
Republican • House
Terry Johnson
Republican • Senate
Thaddeus J. Claggett
Republican • House
Thomas F. Patton
Republican • Senate
Thomas Hall
Republican • House
Tim Barhorst
Republican • House
Tim Schaffer
Republican • Senate
Tracy M. Richardson
Republican • House
Ty D. Mathews
Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 236 • No: 0

House vote • 11/12/2025

Concurred in Senate amendments

Yes: 95 • No: 0

Senate vote • 11/5/2025

Passed

Yes: 33 • No: 0

Senate vote • 10/29/2025

Agriculture and Natural Resources: Reported

Yes: 7 • No: 0

House vote • 6/11/2025

Agriculture: Reported

Yes: 9 • No: 0