SB23 Alabama 2024 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Jack W. Williams Senator

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2024

Title

Food Products, manufacture and distribution of meat from cultured animal cells prohibited

Description

Under existing law, certain food products are not permitted to be manufactured or sold within this state.

This bill would prohibit the manufacture, sale, or distribution of meat produced from cultured animal cells within this state.

This bill would also provide criminal and administrative penalties for violations of this prohibition.

Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the section. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective SB23 INTRODUCED because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the section.

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Subjects

Consumer Protection; Health