South Dakota will ban the manufacture, sale, and distribution of cell-cultured meat (lab-grown protein grown from animal cells outside a live animal) from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2031. Businesses that violate this ban face criminal charges as a Class 2 misdemeanor, stop-sale orders, and potential loss of their food service licenses. The ban does not apply to proteins made through fermentation, enzymes, or other biotechnology methods not intended to replicate meat.
This amendment is a hog house that gutted the original bill—while keeping the cell-cultured protein ban's core prohibition and penalty structure, it stripped out an unrelated amendment about livestock overweight permits and substantially rewrote enforcement procedures to make them more mandatory (requiring department inspections and stop-sale orders upon complaint rather than allowing discretion) and shortened the ban's duration from 2036 to 2031.
The amendment converted the engrossed bill into its enrolled final form by removing procedural markings and adding signature pages, while also making a minor technical correction changing "cell-6 cultured" to "cell-cultured" for proper formatting. This is a standard conversion from working version to final legislative document with no substantive change to the bill's purpose of banning cell-cultured protein sales in South Dakota from 2026-2031.
Other amendments
Signed by the Governor S.J. 529
Delivered to the Governor S.J. 510
Signed by the Speaker H.J. 543
Signed by the President S.J. 485
House of Representatives Do Pass Amended Passed, YEAS 63, NAYS 4. H.J. 516
Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 1. H.J. 35
Agriculture and Natural Resources Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
First read in House and referred to House Agriculture and Natural Resources H.J. 423
Senate Do Pass Amended Passed, YEAS 29, NAYS 5. S.J. 359
Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass Amended Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 1. S.J. 19
Agriculture and Natural Resources Motion to amend S.J. 19
Agriculture and Natural Resources Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
First read in Senate and referred to Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources S.J. 111
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Do Pass Amended
Agriculture and Natural Resources — Do Pass
Do Pass Amended
Agriculture and Natural Resources — Do Pass Amended