Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

AB 515

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Relating to: labeling food as a type of dairy product or as a dairy ingredient and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

Agriculture trade and consumer protection department of Dairy product — Regulation Food

Introduced, stopped here
Passes Assembly, not reached
Passes Senate, not reached
Governor signs, not reached
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under this bill, no person may label a food product as, or sell or offer for sale

a food product that is labeled as, a type of dairy product, such as cream, yogurt, or

cheese, unless the food product is a dairy product. This prohibition applies to most

dairy products but excludes milk and other products derived solely from the milk of

cows or other hooved or camelid mammals.

Also, under the bill, no person may label a food product as, or sell or offer for

sale a food product that is labeled as, a type of dairy ingredient unless the food

product is derived from cow's milk, or hooved or camelid mammal's milk or a type of

milk that meets certain specifications under federal law. The bill also requires the

Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection to promulgate rules to

implement the bill's prohibitions.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Fiscal Estimate From DATCP

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Agriculture, Ayes 12, Noes 0

Passed 12–0 Feb 4, 2020 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Agriculture, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Feb 4, 2020 official source full page