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State regulatory landscape

A source-linked view of selected state food-regulatory developments

Use this maintained public sample to review additive and dye bans, plant-based and cell-cultured labeling, packaging/EPR, PFAS mandates, and other state activity. Each published entry includes the source link and key date used for review.

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State-level rules
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Maintained state food rules

AK
Additives & formulation Final Bill

AK SB 187 Synthetic Food Dyes in Public School Meals

Alaska SB 187 (Chapter 17 SLA 26) prohibits seven synthetic food dyes in Alaska public school meals: Red 3, Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2, and Green 3. The…

Key date 01/01/2028 Primary source
AL
Additives & formulation Final Bill

AL SB 23 Cultivated Food Product Ban

Alabama SB 23 (Act 24-252) prohibits the manufacture, sale, holding, offer for sale, or distribution of cultivated food products in Alabama. "Cultivated food product" means food…

Key date 10/01/24 Primary source
AL
Additives & formulation Final Bill

AL HB 139 Corn Masa Folic Acid Enrichment

Alabama mandates folic-acid enrichment of corn masa. The original law (HB 384, Act 2025-387; effective June 1, 2026) required folic acid in corn masa and corn masa products. HB…

Key date 06/01/26 (Act 2025-387, products) / 10/01/27 (Act 2026-492, flour) Primary source
AZ
Additives & formulation Final Bill

AZ HB 2164 Healthy Schools Act: School Ultra-Processed Food Ban

Arizona HB 2164 (the "Arizona Healthy Schools Act," Chapter 52, Laws 2025; approved April 14, 2025) prohibits any school participating in a federally funded or assisted meal…

Key date 2026-2027 school year Primary source
CA
Claims Passed One Chamber

CA AB 2253 Recycled-Content Claim Substantiation

California AB 2253 would, beginning January 1, 2030, expand recycled-content claim substantiation requirements from plastic food container products to all products, including…

Key date 01/01/30 (proposed; if enacted) Primary source
CA
Claims Passed One Chamber

CA AB 2244 Non-Ultraprocessed Certified Food Standard

California AB 2244 would establish a voluntary California Non-Ultraprocessed Certified food standard. The August 13, 2026 amended text would require CDPH to accredit certification…

Key date If enacted: 06/01/28 CDPH accreditation target Primary source
CA
Packaging Passed One Chamber

CA AB 1148 Safer Food Packaging Act (Bisphenols & Phthalates)

California AB 1148, the proposed Safer Food Packaging Act of 2026, would prohibit, beginning January 1, 2028, food packaging containing intentionally added bisphenols or…

Key date 01/01/2028 (proposed; if enacted) Primary source
CA
Packaging Passed One Chamber

CA AB 1812 Compostable Product Restrictions

California AB 1812 would revise the standards and certification paths for products labeled compostable or home compostable. As amended July 2, 2026, it would also prohibit, after…

Key date 06/30/27 (Proposed) Primary source
CA
Packaging Final Bill

CA State: Beverage Container Recycling (CRV) Large Juice Expansion

California's Beverage Container Recycling Program has covered large fruit-juice containers over 46 fluid ounces and large vegetable-juice containers over 16 fluid ounces since…

Key date 01/01/24 Primary source
CA
Additives & formulation Final Bill

CA AB1264 Real Food, Healthy Kids Act

California AB 1264, chaptered October 8, 2025, phases restrictions for food and beverages offered or sold at public schools. Beginning December 31, 2027, covered school food and…

Key date 12/31/27 (six-dye school food/beverage restriction) Primary source
CA
Labeling Passed One Chamber

CA SB 1031 Compostable Product Labeling

California SB 1031 (Blakespear), "Solid waste: compostable products," would revise California labeling requirements so compostable products are distinguishable from noncompostable…

Key date TBD (Proposed) Primary source
CA
Additives & formulation Proposed Bill

CA State: Bill AB 2171 CalFresh/SNAP Eligibility for Sweetened Drinks and Candy

California AB 2171 would require CDSS to bar CalFresh purchases of defined sweetened drinks and candy, except at restaurants, and extend the restriction to CFAP where federal law…

Key date Implementation conditional on USDA waiver/authorization; CDSS may delay until granted Primary source
CA
Testing Proposed Bill

CA State: Bill AB 2706 Acidified Foods and Low-Acid Foods (State Cannery License Repeal)

California AB 2706 would repeal the separate CDPH cannery-license chapter but would not remove state oversight of acidified and low-acid foods. The June 4 Senate-amended text…

Key date TBD (contingent on enactment; current state requirements remain in force) Primary source
CA
Additives & formulation Proposed Bill

CA AB 2034 Unsafe Additives & Ingredient Disclosures

California AB 2034 would create new state review and disclosure mechanisms for specified food additives and dietary ingredients, including a manufacturer notice process and a…

Key date If enacted: 07/01/27 for the proposed notice/database system; 07/01/30 for the proposed reassessment backstop Primary source
CA
Labeling Final Bill

CA AB 660 / FAC 82001 Food Date-Label Requirements

California AB 660 created the standardized framework now reflected in current FAC 82001. Its requirements became operative July 1, 2026 for covered human food manufactured on or…

Key date Requirements operative 07/01/26 for covered food manufactured on or after that date Primary source
CA
Packaging Final Bill

CA SB343 "Truth in Labeling"

California SB 343 ("Truth in Labeling") strictly regulates environmental marketing claims, specifically targeting misuse of the "chasing arrows" recycling symbol. The law…

Key date 10/04/26 Primary source
CA
Testing Passed One Chamber

CA AB 2302 Infant Formula Heavy-Metals Testing & Disclosure

California AB 2302 (2025-2026 session; Asm. Celeste Rodriguez) would extend the state's baby-food heavy-metals regime to infant formula, which AB 899 explicitly excluded. As…

Key date 01/01/28 (consumer disclosure, if enacted) Primary source
CA
Additives & formulation Final Bill

CA AB 418: California Food Safety Act (Four-Additive Ban)

California's AB 418 (California Food Safety Act) prohibits the manufacture, sale, delivery, distribution, holding, or offer for sale of any food for human consumption that…

Key date 01/01/27 Primary source
CA
Packaging Final Bill

CA AB 793 PCR Beverage Bottle Requirements

California AB 793 requires plastic beverage containers covered by the California Redemption Value (CRV) program to contain minimum postconsumer recycled (PCR) plastic content: 15%…

Key date 01/01/25 (25% PCR) Primary source
CA
Testing Final Bill

CA AB899 Baby Food Heavy Metals

California's Baby Food Safety Act (AB 899) requires manufacturers to test foods marketed for infants and children under age 2 monthly for the four 'toxic elements' (arsenic,…

Key date 01/01/24 (Testing) Primary source
CA
Packaging Final Bill

CA Expanded Polystyrene Food Service Ware Ban

California prohibits the sale and distribution of expanded polystyrene (EPS / Styrofoam-style) foodservice ware (cups, bowls, plates, trays, clamshells, and similar single-use…

Key date 01/01/25 Primary source
CA
Packaging Final Bill

CA AB 1200 PFAS in Plant-Fiber Food Packaging

California AB 1200 bans plant-fiber food packaging (paper, paperboard, molded fiber, sugarcane bagasse, wheat straw) containing intentionally added PFAS OR total organic fluorine…

Key date 01/01/23 Primary source
CA
Additives & formulation Final Bill

CA AB 1830 Corn Masa Folic Acid

California AB 1830 ("Corn masa flour and wet corn masa products: folic acid"; Chapter 912, Statutes of 2024) requires corn masa flour sold in California to contain folic acid at…

Key date 01/01/25 (statute) / 01/01/26 (fortification compliance) Primary source
CA
Packaging Final Rule

CA SB 54 Packaging Producer Responsibility Program

California SB 54 (Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act) creates the most far-reaching packaging EPR program in the US, covering single-use…

Key date 06/30/22 (Law enacted); 05/01/26 (Permanent regs in effect) Primary source
CO
Labeling Final Bill

CO HB25-1203 Cultivated-Meat Misbranding

Colorado HB25-1203 (Ch. 83, Laws 2025; codified at C.R.S. 25-5-428) bars food processing plants from selling or offering cell-cultivated meat that is "misbranded as a meat…

Key date 08/06/25 Primary source
CO
Packaging Final Bill

CO Producer Responsibility Program for Statewide Recycling

Colorado's HB 22-1355 requires producers of packaging, paper products, and foodservice ware to fund and participate in a statewide extended producer responsibility (EPR) recycling…

Key date 07/01/25 Primary source
CO
Packaging Final Bill

CO PFAS Consumer Protection Act (Food Packaging)

Colorado PFAS Consumer Protection Act phases in product-category bans on intentionally added PFAS, with food packaging among the categories prohibited starting 01/01/24. Food…

Key date 01/01/24 Primary source
CT
Packaging Final Bill

CT State: Bottle Bill Redemption

Connecticut requires a refund value of at least $0.10 on covered carbonated and noncarbonated beverage containers. Covered containers must show either the refund value or approved…

Key date 01/01/24 deposit and marking requirements; PA 26-148 Section 1 effective 10/01/26 Primary source
CT
Packaging Final Bill

CT PFAS in Food Packaging

Connecticut Public Act 21-191 amended the state's toxics-in-packaging law to prohibit intentionally added PFAS in food packaging. The prohibition covers direct-food-contact…

Key date 01/01/24 Primary source
DC
Packaging Proposed Bill

DC Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Amendment Act

D.C. Bill 26-0058 would establish a beverage-container deposit and stewardship program. Beginning January 1, 2028, covered distributors would face registration, fee,…

Key date After mayoral approval, 30-day congressional review, and D.C. Register publication (proposed; not enacted) Primary source
DE
Additives & formulation Final Bill

DE SB 69 School Red Dye 40 Ban

Delaware SB 69 (153rd General Assembly; enacted May 22, 2025; updates and replaces the earlier SB 41) prohibits selling or serving breakfast, lunch, or competitive food containing…

Key date 05/22/25 (enacted) / implementation begins 07/01/26 Primary source
DE
Additives & formulation Passed Both Chambers

DE HB 337 Corn Masa Folic Acid Fortification

Delaware HB 337 would require folic acid fortification of corn masa flour and corn masa sold or used in Delaware. Corn masa flour must contain 0.7 milligrams of folic acid per…

Key date Not specified (awaiting Governor) Primary source
FL
Labeling Final Bill

FL Plant-Based Labeling (§500.93, DORMANT)

Florida's separate plant-based labeling triggers remain dormant: enacted tallies are 2 milk, 9 meat/poultry, and 3 egg laws, below each 11-of-14 threshold in section 500.93.…

Key date Contingent (trigger not met) Primary source
FL
Additives & formulation Final Bill

FL Cultivated-Meat Ban (Fla. Stat. §500.452)

Florida's cultivated-meat ban (SB 1084, Ch. 2024-137; codified at Fla. Stat. §500.452) makes it unlawful to manufacture, sell, hold or offer for sale, or distribute cultivated…

Key date 07/01/24 Primary source
HI
Packaging Final Bill

HI State: Deposit Beverage Container Program (HI 5)

Hawaii's HI 5 program continues to require a five-cent refund value and a Hawaii or HI container mark on covered deposit beverage containers. Act 158, signed and effective June…

Key date 2002 (enacted); 2005 (deposit redemption operative) Primary source
HI
Packaging Final Bill

HI PFAS in Paper Food Packaging

Hawaii Act 152 prohibits paper food packaging with intentionally added PFAS, specifically covering paper and plant-fiber food-contact items used for preparation, serving, or…

Key date 12/31/24 Primary source
IA
Packaging Final Bill

IA State: Beverage Containers Control (SF 2378 modernization)

Iowa deposit-return program; 5¢ deposit unchanged since 1979; SF 2378 (signed June 2022, effective 01/01/2023) modernized program: UPC registration via GovConnectIowa, distributor…

Key date 1978 (enacted); 1979 (effective) Primary source
IA
Packaging Proposed Bill

IA HF 588 PFAS in Food Packaging

Iowa HF 588 would prohibit knowingly manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, or distributing for sale or use food packaging with intentionally added PFAS beginning January 1,…

Key date TBD (Proposed) Primary source
ID
Labeling Final Bill

ID SB 1270 Alternative-Animal-Protein Labeling

Idaho SB 1270 (2026 session; adds Chapter 16, Title 37, Idaho Code) requires any "alternative animal protein" (including cultivated/cell-cultured/lab-grown) sold in Idaho to bear…

Key date 07/01/26 Primary source
IL
Additives & formulation Passed One Chamber

IL SB 93 Prohibited Food Additives

Illinois SB 93, as amended in the Senate, would prohibit manufacturing food for human consumption containing potassium bromate or propylparaben beginning January 1, 2027. A…

Key date TBD (Proposed) Primary source
IL
Testing Final Bill

IL SB73 Baby Food Testing

Illinois Public Act 104-0345, enacted through SB 73, requires manufacturers of baby food sold in Illinois to test a representative sample of each production aggregate for arsenic,…

Key date 01/01/26 (Testing) Primary source
IL
Additives & formulation Paused (Session Sine Die)

IL SB 2637 Food Additive Ban

Illinois SB 2637 proposed a state-level food additive ban modeled on California AB 418, targeting additives like potassium bromate, propylparaben, BVO, and Red No. 3. The 103rd…

Key date Not Enacted Primary source
IN
Additives & formulation Final Bill

IN HB 1425 Cultivated-Meat Moratorium

Indiana HEA 1425 (2025) imposes a cultivated-meat moratorium: IC 15-17-5-6.1 bans the sale, offer for sale, or manufacture of cultivated meat from 2025-07-01 through 2027-06-30; a…

Key date 07/01/25 Primary source
LA
Labeling Final Bill

LA SB 14 / Act 463 Additive QR Disclosure

Louisiana Act 463, enacted through 2025 SB 14 and signed June 20, 2025, requires a QR-code disclosure for covered human food containing a listed ingredient when FDA requires the…

Key date 12/31/28 (QR disclosure; school-food provision effective 01/01/28) Primary source
LA
Labeling Final Bill

LA HB 783 Non-Lactational Dairy Protein Disclosure and Contingent Sale Limits

Louisiana Act 837, enacted through 2026 HB 783 and signed June 8, 2026, defines non-lactational dairy protein products. Section 1 took effect on signature and requires each unit…

Key date 06/08/26 (Section 1 disclosure); Section 2 contingent on Act 555 trigger Primary source
LA
Additives & formulation Final Bill

LA SB 152 Cell-Cultured Food Products Prohibition

Louisiana Act 742 (SB 152) creates a prohibition on manufacturing, distributing, selling, or offering cell-cultured food products for human consumption. The Act has a general…

Key date 08/01/26 (Act effective; prohibition contingent and not operative) Primary source
LA
Labeling Final Bill

LA HB 857 Commingled Seafood Country-of-Origin Labeling

Louisiana HB 857 (2026 Regular Session), signed 2026-05-22 as Act 323, amends La. R.S. 3:4749.2 to require commercial seafood processors and distributors to label imported and…

Key date In force 2026-08-01 Primary source
MA
Packaging Final Bill

MA State: Bottle Bill (Returnable Container Deposit Law)

Massachusetts General Laws chapter 94, sections 321-327, establish a five-cent deposit-return program for covered carbonated soft drinks, beer, malt beverages, and mineral water.…

Key date 1981 (enacted); 1983 (effective) Primary source
MA
Packaging Proposed Bill

MA S.1588 PFAS in Food Packaging

Massachusetts S.1588 would prohibit manufacturing, knowingly selling, offering for sale, distributing for sale, or distributing for use in Massachusetts food packaging with…

Key date TBD (Proposed) Primary source
MD
Testing Final Bill

MD SB723 (Rudy's Law) Baby Food

Maryland SB 723 ("Rudy's Law") phases in baby-food heavy-metal controls: law effective 10/01/24, monthly testing of foods for infants and children under age 2 beginning 01/01/25…

Key date 10/01/24 Primary source
MD
Packaging Final Bill

MD Packaging and Paper Products Producer Responsibility Plans

Maryland enacted packaging and paper producer responsibility (EPR) legislation (SB 901, signed 05/13/25) establishing the framework for a statewide program requiring producers of…

Key date 05/13/25 (Law signed) Primary source
MD
Packaging Final Bill

MD PFAS in Food Packaging

Maryland HB 275 / SB 273 (enacted 2021) bars manufacturers and distributors from selling direct-food-contact food packages or packaging components with intentionally added PFAS.…

Key date 01/01/24 Primary source
ME
Packaging Final Bill

ME Packaging Stewardship Program

Maine's Stewardship Program for Packaging remains at implementation step 4, contracting with a Stewardship Organization. Maine DEP reported on August 20, 2026 that no proposals…

Key date 07/13/21 (Law enacted) Primary source
ME
Packaging Final Bill

ME State: Returnable Beverage Container Law (Broadest US Scope)

Maine's beverage-container law requires a deposit of at least five cents for most covered containers and at least fifteen cents for wine and spirits containers larger than 50…

Key date 1976 (enacted); 1978 (effective) Primary source
ME
Waste Final Bill

ME LD 1065 Food Waste Reduction & Recycling Act

Maine LD 1065 ("An Act Regarding the Reduction and Recycling of Food Waste"; SP 438; became law without the Governor signature June 24, 2025 as Public Law Chapter 419; codified 38…

Key date 07/01/30 (2t/20mi tier); 07/01/32 (1t/25mi tier) Primary source
ME
Packaging Final Rule

ME PFAS in Certain Food Packaging

Maine DEP Chapter 80 rule prohibits PFAS in certain direct-food-contact plant-fiber packaging intended for short-term storage or freshly prepared food, including bags, sleeves,…

Key date 05/25/26 Primary source
MI
Testing Proposed Bill

MI HB 4865 Baby Food Toxic Element Testing

Michigan HB 4865, as reported with substitute H-3 on June 3, 2026 and referred to second reading, would require baby food sold in Michigan to meet FDA standards, action levels,…

Key date 01/01/27 (proposed H-3; not enacted) Primary source
MI
Packaging Final Bill

MI State: Beverage Container Deposit Law (Initiated Law 1 of 1976)

Michigan's current Beverage Container Deposit Law continues to require a ten-cent deposit for covered carbonated beverages, beer and other malt drinks, and mixed wine or spirit…

Key date 12/03/76 (enactment); pending: 2026 expansion ballot under discussion Primary source
MI
Additives & formulation Passed One Chamber

MI HB 5069 Food Additive and Color Prohibition

Michigan HB 5069 would amend the Michigan Food Law (2000 PA 92) to prohibit a person from selling or offering for sale any food containing seven substances: brominated vegetable…

Key date 01/01/2029 (if enacted; federal-ban preemption) Primary source
MN
Packaging Final Bill

MN Packaging Waste and Cost Reduction Act

Minnesota's 2024 Packaging Waste and Cost Reduction Act establishes extended producer responsibility for covered packaging, food packaging, and paper products. MPCA's initial…

Key date 2024 (Law enacted) Primary source
MN
Packaging Final Bill

MN PFAS in Food Packaging

Minnesota's food-packaging PFAS law uses one of the BROADEST definitions in any state, prohibiting intentionally added PFAS in food packages AND packaging components including…

Key date 01/01/24 Primary source
MS
Additives & formulation Final Bill

MS HB 1153 Cell-Cultured Dairy Ban

Mississippi HB 1153 expanded the state's meat and alternative-protein labeling law to explicitly prohibit the manufacture, sale, or offer for sale of cell-cultured dairy products…

Key date 07/01/26 Primary source
MT
Additives & formulation Final Bill

MT HB 401 Cell-Cultured Meat Ban

Montana HB 401 (Ch. 276, Laws 2025) prohibits the manufacture-for-sale, sale, or distribution of any "cell-cultured edible product" statewide (prohibited act at MCA 50-31-501;…

Key date 10/01/25 Primary source
NE
Additives & formulation Final Bill

NE LB 246 Cultivated-Protein Adulteration

Nebraska LB 246 (2025) amends the Pure Food Act (Neb. Rev. Stat. §81-2,282) to deem a "cultivated-protein food product" adulterated, making it unlawful to manufacture, import,…

Key date 09/02/25 Primary source
NJ
Packaging Final Bill

NJ Post Consumer Recycled Content Regulation

New Jersey's Recycled Content Law has required minimum postconsumer recycled content for covered containers and packaging since January 18, 2024. A package or container that…

Key date 01/18/24 Primary source
NJ
Additives & formulation Proposed Bill

NJ State: Bill S 4092 Commercial Food Substance Ban + School Food Dye Ban

New Jersey S 4092, introduced May 4, 2026 by Senators Anthony M. Bucco and Shirley K. Turner, would immediately prohibit seven named dyes in food served, sold, or given away on…

Key date School provision: immediately on enactment; commercial provision: first day of 25th month following enactment Primary source
NJ
Labeling Proposed Bill

NJ S 4499 Cell-Cultivated Food Labeling

New Jersey S 4499 would require that food containing an animal cell-cultivated product carry a label or other indication of that fact, supplementing Title 24 of the Revised…

Key date TBD (Proposed) Primary source
NJ
Additives & formulation Proposed Bill

NJ A5119 Fortifying Corn Masa Act

New Jersey's "Fortifying Corn Masa Act" (A5119, Asw. Yvonne Lopez; identical Senate companion S4193, Sen. M. Teresa Ruiz) would require corn masa flour sold in New Jersey to…

Key date TBD (one year after enactment) Primary source
NM
Packaging Final Rule

NM HB 212 PFAS Protection Act (Food Packaging)

New Mexico's Environmental Improvement Board adopted 20.13.2 NMAC to implement the PFAS Protection Act. The rule was published May 5, 2026 and took effect July 1, 2026. Beginning…

Key date 07/01/26 (20.13.2 NMAC); 01/01/27 food-packaging prohibition Primary source
NY
Additives & formulation Passed Both Chambers

NY Food Additive Ban / Food Chemical Safety Act

New York S 1239F, with Assembly companion A 1556G, would restrict FD&C Red No. 3, potassium bromate, and propylparaben in food and establish reporting for specified self-affirmed…

Key date TBD (passed both chambers; not yet delivered to Governor) Primary source
NY
Labeling Passed Both Chambers — Not Law

NY S7618B / A7291B Food Date Labeling and Consumer Protection Act

New York S7618B / A7291B passed both chambers on June 2, 2026, but the official bill page did not show delivery to or signature by the Governor as of August 4, 2026; it is not…

Key date If enacted: act effective 180 days after becoming law Primary source
NY
Claims Proposed Bill

NY A 2584 / S 397 False or Misleading Food Advertising (Child-Directed Marketing)

[PROPOSED] New York A 2584-A / S 397-A would add child-directed food-advertising factors to General Business Law section 350-a, direct courts applying Agriculture and Markets Law…

Key date 30 days after enactment (no compliance phase-in) Primary source
NY
Packaging Proposed Bill

NY State: Bill S 1464A / A 1749A Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act

New York S 1464A / A 1749A would create the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act for covered packaging and single-use plastic products. The amended bill excludes…

Key date Takes effect immediately on enactment (program phase-in via PRRO plan + DEC approval) Primary source
NY
Packaging Final Bill

NY State: Returnable Container Act (Bigger Better Bottle Bill)

New York's Returnable Container Act remains in force with a five-cent deposit on the beverage categories covered by current law. A separate pending 2025-2026-session proposal, S…

Key date Current law: 1983; water expansion 2009. [PROPOSED] S 5684 specifies staged dates beginning 04/01/26, 04/01/27, and 04/01/30, but is not law. Primary source
NY
Packaging Final Bill

NY PFAS in Food Packaging

New York prohibits distributing, selling, or offering for sale food packaging with intentionally added PFAS when the package is mainly paper, paperboard, or other plant-derived…

Key date 12/31/22 Primary source
OH
Labeling Final Bill

OH HB 10 Imitation Meat & Egg Labeling

Ohio HB 10 (136th General Assembly; ORC 3715.602) makes a food "misbranded as a meat or egg product" when a manufactured-protein or fabricated-egg product uses an identifying…

Key date 03/20/26 Primary source
OK
Additives & formulation Paused (Session Sine Die)

OK HB 1912 Corn Masa Nutrition Enhancement Act

Oklahoma HB 1912 did not pass before the second session of the 60th Legislature adjourned sine die on May 14, 2026 and is not law. The March 9 House floor version would have made…

Key date Not Enacted Primary source
OK
Additives & formulation Paused (Session Sine Die)

OK State: Bill SB 96 Cultivated Meat Prohibition

Oklahoma SB 96 (2025-2026 session) would have prohibited the manufacture, sale, holding or offering for sale, or distribution of cultivated meat (also called lab-grown or…

Key date Not Enacted Primary source
OR
Packaging Final Bill

OR State: Beverage Container Redemption (Bottle Bill) Canned Wine Inclusion

Oregon's Bottle Bill requires a ten-cent refund value on covered beverage containers. ORS 459A.702 covers specified beverages in sealed glass, metal, or plastic bottles or cans of…

Key date 07/01/25 (canned wine added); 10/01/26 (label mandatory) Primary source
OR
Packaging Final Bill

OR Recycling Modernization Act (Packaging EPR)

Oregon's Recycling Modernization Act (RMA, enacted 2021) moved covered packaging, paper, and foodservice ware into a statewide producer-responsibility system, the first EPR law in…

Key date 07/01/25 Primary source
OR
Packaging Final Bill

OR SB 543 PFAS in Foodware Containers

Oregon SB 543 prohibits the sale of foodware containers with intentionally added PFAS AND bars continued use of noncompliant inventory after the effective date. "Foodware…

Key date 01/01/25 Primary source
PA
Labeling Proposed Bill

PA HB 2377 High-Caffeine Beverage Warning Label

Pennsylvania HB 2377 would amend Title 3 (Agriculture), in food protection, to require a high-caffeine disclosure on retail food facility menus. As amended (Printer's No. 3674), a…

Key date TBD (Proposed) Primary source
PA
Testing Proposed Bill

PA HB 507 Baby Food Heavy-Metal Testing and Labeling

Pennsylvania HB 507 would provide for the testing and labeling of baby food, set prohibited levels of toxic heavy metals in baby food, and impose related duties on the Department…

Key date TBD (Proposed) Primary source
RI
Packaging Proposed Bill

RI S 2656 Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging and Paper Act

Rhode Island S 2656 would establish an extended producer responsibility (EPR) program for packaging and paper products. Section 1 of the bill would take effect upon passage;…

Key date TBD (Proposed) Primary source
RI
Packaging Final Bill

RI State: PVC & Polystyrene Packaging Ban (Toxic Packaging Reduction Act)

Rhode Island prohibits any person, including manufacturers and distributors, from selling or distributing into commerce any packaging, packaging component, or reusable packaging…

Key date 01/01/2026 Primary source
RI
Packaging Final Bill

RI State: PFAS in Food Packaging Ban (Toxic Packaging Reduction Act)

Rhode Island prohibits the sale or distribution of food packaging containing intentionally introduced PFAS, under the state's Toxic Packaging Reduction Act (RIGL 23-18.13). The…

Key date 01/01/2025 (intentionally added PFAS in food packaging); 07/01/2027 (PFAS as processing or mold-release agent) Primary source
SC
Additives & formulation Passed One Chamber

SC H 5096 Cell-Cultivated Food Restrictions

South Carolina H 5096 would prohibit manufacturing, selling, holding, offering for sale, or distributing an artificial or cell-cultivated food product in the state and would…

Key date Upon approval by Governor (proposed; not enacted) Primary source
SC
Additives & formulation Proposed Bill

SC State: Bill H 4758 Consumable Hemp Product Ban (incl. Hemp Beverages)

South Carolina H 4758 would prohibit the sale or possession of covered consumable hemp products, treat products sold in violation of the proposed chapter as contraband, and…

Key date Upon approval by Governor (proposed; not enacted) Primary source
SD
Additives & formulation Final Bill

SD SB 124 Cell-Cultured Protein Ban

South Dakota SB 124 temporarily prohibits the sale, offer for sale, holding for sale, distribution, and (for meat products) manufacture of products containing cell-cultured…

Key date 07/01/26 Primary source
TN
Packaging Paused (Session Sine Die)

TN SB 0269 Tennessee Waste to Jobs Act

Tennessee SB 269, the proposed Tennessee Waste to Jobs Act, would have established a producer-responsibility framework for covered packaging materials and restricted sale of…

Key date Not Enacted Primary source
TN
Additives & formulation Final Bill

TN HB 134 School Nutrition Red Dye 40 Ban

Tennessee HB 134 (Public Chapter 476, 2025; companion SB 476; signed May 27, 2025) prohibits food or beverage items containing Allura Red AC (Red Dye 40, CAS 25956-17-6) from…

Key date 08/01/27 Primary source
TX
Additives & formulation Final Bill

TX SB 261 Temporary Cell-Cultured Protein Sales Prohibition

Texas SB 261 is a temporary enacted prohibition on offering for sale or selling cell-cultured protein for human consumption in Texas. The enrolled text does not create a…

Key date 09/01/25 Primary source
TX
Labeling Final Bill

TX SB25 Additive Disclosure

Texas SB 25 requires a state-specific warning statement on labels of certain foods containing listed ingredients when the label is developed or copyrighted on or after January 1,…

Key date 09/01/25 Primary source
TX
Additives & formulation Final Bill

TX SB 314 School Meal Additive Ban

Texas SB 314 (89th Regular Session; approved by Gov. Abbott May 26, 2025; filed May 27; companion HB 1290) bars school districts and open-enrollment charter schools from providing…

Key date 05/26/25 (bill) / contracts on or after 09/01/26 (prohibition) Primary source
UT
Additives & formulation Final Bill

UT HB 402 Foods Additives in Schools

Utah HB 402 ("Foods Additives in Schools"; signed by Gov. Cox March 27, 2025; statute effective May 7, 2025) prohibits public schools, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, from…

Key date 05/07/25 (statute) / 2026-2027 school year (school prohibition) Primary source
VA
Additives & formulation Final Bill

VA SB 1289 / HB 1910 School Food Dye Ban

Virginia SB 1289 and identical companion HB 1910 (enacted as Chapters 212 and 222, Acts of Assembly 2025; reported signed March 21, 2025) prohibit any public elementary or…

Key date 07/01/27 Primary source
VA
Labeling Final Bill

VA SB 186 Manufactured-Protein Labeling

Virginia SB 186 (Ch. 108, 2026 Acts; identical companion HB 322) deems a meat or poultry product "misbranded" if it contains a manufactured-protein product (plant-based,…

Key date 07/01/26 Primary source
VA
Testing Final Bill

VA HB1844 Baby Food Protection Act

Virginia's Baby Food Protection Act (HB 1844) requires heavy-metal testing and public disclosure for baby food sold in Virginia. Unlike some states (CA, MD, IL), Virginia has a…

Key date 01/01/26 Primary source
VT
Packaging Final Bill

VT State: Beverage Container Redemption Act

Vermont Act 158 modernizes the existing beverage-container redemption program without expanding covered beverage categories. Handling-fee changes took effect July 1, 2026. Deposit…

Key date 07/01/2026 (Act 158; phased provisions follow) Primary source
VT
Additives & formulation Proposed Bill

VT S 26 Artificial Dyes in School Food Prohibition

Vermont S.26 would prohibit school districts and approved independent schools from serving or selling food or beverages during the school day that contain Blue 1, Blue 2, Green 3,…

Key date TBD Primary source
VT
Testing Final Bill

VT H.536 Toxic Heavy Metals in Baby Food Products

Vermont H.536, signed into law 05/26/26, adds baby-food heavy-metal testing, public disclosure, and on-pack QR-code labeling requirements, PLUS a novel provision: the law LIMITS…

Key date January 1, 2027 Primary source
VT
Packaging Final Bill

VT PFAS in Food Packaging

Vermont prohibits food packaging containing intentionally added PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances); the "intentionally added" definition captures any amount added during…

Key date 01/01/26 Primary source
WA
Packaging Final Bill

WA E2SSB 5284 Recycling Reform Act (Packaging EPR)

Washington's Recycling Reform Act (E2SSB 5284; chapter 70A.208 RCW) establishes extended producer responsibility for residential packaging and paper products. Producers were…

Key date PRO appoint 01/01/26; PRO register 03/01/26; producer join 07/01/26 Primary source
WA
Packaging Final Bill

WA PFAS in Food Packaging

Washington's Safer Products for Washington program phases PFAS restrictions in food packaging by product category. Phase 1 (02/01/23) covered wraps, plates, food boats, pizza…

Key date 02/01/23 (Phase 1) Primary source
WA
Packaging Final Bill

WA Compostable Packaging Labeling Standards

Washington State requires items marketed as compostable to meet certification, labeling, and product-marking standards intended to reduce greenwashing and contamination in…

Key date 01/01/24 Primary source
WA
Packaging Final Bill

WA SB 5022 Minimum PCR Content

Washington SB 5022 mandates tiered, escalating minimum post-consumer recycled (PCR) content percentages in specific plastic packaging categories: beverage containers, trash bags,…

Key date 01/01/23 (Initial PCR requirements) Primary source
WV
Additives & formulation Final Bill

WV HB2354 Ban on synthetic dyes

West Virginia HB 2354 restricts certain synthetic dyes and preservatives in food: phased, with near-term school-meal restrictions first (effective 08/01/25) and a broader…

Key date 08/01/25 (Schools) Primary source

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