(Denver, CO) -- Two legislators who represent you in Southeast Colorado will be speaking on their bill that prohibits meat fabricated in a laboratory on Monday, January 27th.
State Senator Rod Pelton and Representative Ty Winter introduced their legislation on January 8th.
According to the fiscal note on House Bill 25-1064, the bill prohibits any individual from selling, offering for sale, manufacturing, or distributing cultivated meat in Colorado. Cultivated meat is defined in the bill as a food product produced from animal cells grown in a laboratory setting in a controlled environment. The Commissioner of Agriculture may create rules to administer the bill’s requirements. Additionally, the bill permits the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), or a county or district public health agency, to suspend or revoke a retail establishment’s license if found to be in violation of the prohibition.
The bill will be heard at 1:30 in the Agriculture, Water and Natural Resources Committee. Another bill of possible interest to Southeast Colorado that will be heard that day is House Bill 25-1074 which would repeal the confinement standards for egg-laying hens whose eggs are sold in Colorado created by House Bill 20-1343.
In the fiscal note, it states that under current law, a farm owner or operator cannot keep a hen in an enclosure that: is not a cage-free housing system; has less than one square foot of floor space per hen in cage-free housing system providing hens with access to vertical space; or has less than one and one-half square feet of floor space per hen in a cage-free housing system that does not provide access to vertical space. Additionally, businesses may only sell eggs produced by hens kept in enclosures that adhere to these standards.
When a bill is introduced in the house, it's a called a House Bill and will go to committee, come back onto the floor for a second reading and go to another committee before returning to the floor for a third and final reading. It must then make the same travel through the other chamber, the Senate before it can be signed into law by the governor.
If you would like to listen in to Monday's committee on these bills and more, save this link and tune in at 1:30. https://leg.colorado.gov/content/agriculture-water-natural-resources-1
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