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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1602: Various food matters.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1602 is a bill introduced in the Indiana House on January 21, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Various food matters. Primary sponsor: Gary Byrne (Republican), Daryl Schmitt (Republican), Sue Glick (Republican), Kendell Culp (Republican). It lists 3 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (March 3, 2025): First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Provides that a recipient may appeal to the legislative body an enforcement action issued or taken by a local health officer under IC 16-20-1 in response to a food establishment inspection. Adds provisions concerning limited meat product sales. Prohibits a grocery store from selling, offering for sale, or distributing an alternative meat product misbranded as a meat product. Requires a food manufacturer to label alternative meat products as "THIS IS AN IMITATION MEAT PRODUCT".

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 7

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Gary ByrnePrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate47
Daryl SchmittPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate48
Sue GlickPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate13
Kendell CulpPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse16
Steve BartelsCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse74
Blake DoriotCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate12
Hunter SmithCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse24

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture
  2. Referred to the Senate
  3. Cosponsor: Senator Doriot
  4. Senate sponsors: Senators Glick, Schmitt, Byrne
  5. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 194: yeas 94, nays 0
  6. Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
  7. Amendment #1 (Culp) prevailed; voice vote
  8. Representative Bartels added as coauthor
  9. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
  10. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
  11. Recommitted to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code pursuant to House Rule 126.3
  12. Representative Smith H added as coauthor

Showing 12 most recent of 14 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source