HB 1134 — An Act amending Title 3 (Agriculture) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in food protection, further providing for misbranding of food.

Congress · introduced 2025-04-21

Latest action: — Referred to CONSUMER PROTECTION, TECHNOLOGY AND UTILITIES, April 21, 2025

Action timeline

2025-04-21 · house — Referred to CONSUMER PROTECTION, TECHNOLOGY AND UTILITIES, April 21, 2025

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Bill text

Printer's No. 1419 · 2,317 characters · source document

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PRINTER'S NO.    1419

                       THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                           HOUSE BILL
                           No. 1134
                                                  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, KOZAK, 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 Blue 1 (CAS 3844-45-9),
13      Blue 2 (CAS 860-22-0), Green 3 (CAS 2353-45-9), Red 40 (CAS
14      25956-17-6), Yellow 5 (CAS 1934-21-0) or Yellow 6 (CAS 2783-
15      94-0), unless it bears the following warning, in boldface
16      type, on the principle display panel and in a type size no
 1      smaller than the type size used for the "serving size"
 2      declaration required by Federal law:
 3               WARNING: This product contains synthetic colors,
 4               which may have an adverse effect on activity and
 5               attention in children.
 6      * * *
 7      (d)   Definition.--As used in this section, the term "CAS"
 8   means the unique accession number assigned by the Chemical
 9   Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical Society,
10   as of the effective date of this section, to a substance.
11      Section 2.   This act shall take effect in one year.




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date	type	to	amount	role	source
—	referred_to_committee	Pennsylvania House Consumer Protection, Technology And Utilities Committee	—		pa-leg

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Pennsylvania House Consumer Protection, Technology And Utilities Committee

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#	Member	Role	Voted	Score
1	Natalie Mihalek (R, state_lower PA-40)	sponsor	—	5
2	Abby Major (R, state_lower PA-60)	cosponsor	—	1
3	Alec J. Ryncavage (R, state_lower PA-119)	cosponsor	—	1
4	Anita ASTORINO Kulik (D, state_lower PA-45)	cosponsor	—	1
5	Barbara Gleim (R, state_lower PA-199)	cosponsor	—	1
6	Benjamin V. Sanchez (D, state_lower PA-153)	cosponsor	—	1
7	Brenda M. Pugh (R, state_lower PA-120)	cosponsor	—	1
8	Carl WALKER Metzgar (R, state_lower PA-69)	cosponsor	—	1
9	Christina D. Sappey (D, state_lower PA-158)	cosponsor	—	1
10	Danielle Friel Otten (D, state_lower PA-155)	cosponsor	—	1
11	David H. Rowe (R, state_lower PA-85)	cosponsor	—	1
12	David H. Zimmerman (R, state_lower PA-99)	cosponsor	—	1
13	Ed Neilson (D, state_lower PA-174)	cosponsor	—	1
14	Emily Kinkead (D, state_lower PA-20)	cosponsor	—	1
15	G. Roni Green (D, state_lower PA-190)	cosponsor	—	1
16	Jacob D. Banta (R, state_lower PA-4)	cosponsor	—	1
17	Jamie Walsh (R, state_lower PA-117)	cosponsor	—	1
18	Jared G. Solomon (D, state_lower PA-202)	cosponsor	—	1
19	Jennifer O'Mara (D, state_lower PA-165)	cosponsor	—	1
20	Jeremy Shaffer (R, state_lower PA-28)	cosponsor	—	1
21	Jessica Benham (D, state_lower PA-36)	cosponsor	—	1
22	Jill N. Cooper (R, state_lower PA-55)	cosponsor	—	1
23	Joe Hogan (R, state_lower PA-142)	cosponsor	—	1
24	Joe Kerwin (R, state_lower PA-125)	cosponsor	—	1
25	Jose Giral (D, state_lower PA-180)	cosponsor	—	1

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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

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2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania House Consumer Protection, Technology And Utilities Committee · pa-leg

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