HB 1133 — An Act amending Title 3 (Agriculture) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in food protection, further providing for misbranding of food.

Bill text

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PRINTER'S NO.     1418

                       THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                           HOUSE BILL
                           No. 1133
                                                  Session of
                                                    2025

     INTRODUCED BY MIHALEK, SHUSTERMAN, ROWE, SCIALABBA, O'MARA,
        MAJOR, FLEMING, HOGAN, WARNER, KAIL, LABS, LEADBETER, GLEIM,
        BOROWSKI, BENHAM, METZGAR, SAPPEY, PICKETT, GIRAL, SANCHEZ,
        KULIK, NEILSON, KAUFFMAN, OTTEN, RIVERA, GREEN, KERWIN,
        COOPER, BANTA AND PUGH, APRIL 21, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION, TECHNOLOGY AND
        UTILITIES, APRIL 21, 2025


                                       AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 3 (Agriculture) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 2      Statutes, in food protection, further providing for
 3      misbranding of food.
 4      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 5   hereby enacts as follows:
 6      Section 1.      Section 5729(a) of Title 3 of the Pennsylvania
 7   Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a paragraph and the
 8   section is amended by adding a subsection to read:
 9   § 5729.    Misbranding of food.
10      (a)    General rule.--A food shall be misbranded:
11             * * *
12             (13)    If it bears or contains Butylated Hydroxyanisole
13      (CAS 25013-16-5) unless it bears the following warning, in
14      boldface type, on the principal display panel and in a type
15      size no smaller than the type size used for the "serving
16      size" declaration required by Federal law:
1               WARNING: This product contains BHA, which may cause
2               cancer.
3      * * *
4      (d)   Definition.--As used in this section, the term "CAS"
5   means the unique accession number assigned by the Chemical
6   Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical Society,
7   as of the effective date of this section, to a substance.
8      Section 2.   This act shall take effect in one year.




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Who matters

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0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

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1. 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania House Consumer Protection, Technology And Utilities Committee · pa-leg
2. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Kathleen C. Tomlinson (cosponsor) · sponsorship
3. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Justin C. Fleming (cosponsor) · sponsorship
4. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Joe Hogan (cosponsor) · sponsorship
5. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Tarah Probst (cosponsor) · sponsorship
6. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Lisa A. Borowski (cosponsor) · sponsorship
7. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Melissa L. Shusterman (cosponsor) · sponsorship
8. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Jared G. Solomon (cosponsor) · sponsorship
9. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Wendy Fink (cosponsor) · sponsorship
10. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Danielle Friel Otten (cosponsor) · sponsorship
11. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Barbara Gleim (cosponsor) · sponsorship
12. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Emily Kinkead (cosponsor) · sponsorship
13. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Christina D. Sappey (cosponsor) · sponsorship
14. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Jessica Benham (cosponsor) · sponsorship
15. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Anita ASTORINO Kulik (cosponsor) · sponsorship
16. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Jill N. Cooper (cosponsor) · sponsorship
17. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Abby Major (cosponsor) · sponsorship
18. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Benjamin V. Sanchez (cosponsor) · sponsorship
19. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Jennifer O'Mara (cosponsor) · sponsorship
20. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Shelby Labs (cosponsor) · sponsorship
21. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Rob W. Kauffman (cosponsor) · sponsorship
22. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Robert Leadbeter (cosponsor) · sponsorship
23. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by G. Roni Green (cosponsor) · sponsorship
24. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Nikki Rivera (cosponsor) · sponsorship
25. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by David H. Rowe (cosponsor) · sponsorship
26. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Tina Pickett (cosponsor) · sponsorship
27. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Paul Takac (cosponsor) · sponsorship
28. 2025-04-21 · sponsored by Natalie Mihalek (sponsor) · sponsorship
29. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Jose Giral (cosponsor) · sponsorship
30. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Brenda M. Pugh (cosponsor) · sponsorship
31. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Alec J. Ryncavage (cosponsor) · sponsorship
32. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by David H. Zimmerman (cosponsor) · sponsorship
33. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Jacob D. Banta (cosponsor) · sponsorship
34. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Marci Mustello (cosponsor) · sponsorship
35. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Joshua D. Kail (cosponsor) · sponsorship
36. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Carl WALKER Metzgar (cosponsor) · sponsorship
37. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Ryan Warner (cosponsor) · sponsorship
38. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Jamie Walsh (cosponsor) · sponsorship
39. 2025-04-21 · cosponsored by Ed Neilson (cosponsor) · sponsorship