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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 947

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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 Interstate relations

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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.

Each prohibition in the bill applies only if at least 10 states out of a group of 15

states listed in the bill enact a similar prohibition by June 30, 2031; otherwise the

prohibition does not apply.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Cowles (R) , Marklein (R) , Pfaff (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wanggaard (R)

23 cosponsors

Behnke (R) , Brandtjen (R) , C. Anderson (D) , Dittrich (R) , Edming (R) , Goeben (R) , Gundrum (R) , Gustafson (R) , Kitchens (R) , Maxey (R) , Moses (R) , Murphy (R) , Novak (R) , O'Connor (R) , Oldenburg (R) , Palmeri (D) , Penterman (R) , Sapik (R) , Schmidt (R) , Schutt (R) , Sortwell (R) , Subeck (D) , Tranel (R)

Full history

  1. Jan 26, 2024 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Marklein, Cowles, Pfaff, Spreitzer and Wanggaard; cosponsored by Representatives Goeben, Behnke, C. Anderson, Brandtjen, Dittrich, Edming, Gundrum, Gustafson, Kitchens, Maxey, Moses, Murphy, Novak, O'Connor, Oldenburg, Palmeri, Penterman, Sapik, Schmidt, Schutt, Sortwell, Subeck and Tranel

  2. Jan 26, 2024 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture and Tourism

  3. Apr 15, 2024 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1