05/15/2025
This is HUGE!
🥳🥳🥳 Texas Food Freedom Act finally passes the House by a vote of 135-5.
This bill VASTLY expands opportunities for cottage food producers, including ability to sell more (healthy, refrigerated) foods, increases the annual sales cap to $150k, adds the ability to wholesale non-refrigerated cottage foods, clarifies that permits aren't required for sampling, removes the home address from labels with optional DSHS registration... and MORE. It's truly a groundbreaking food freedom bill that puts Texas back on top of the Food Freedom movement.
What's next: since the bill passed the Senate back in April with different language, Senator Kolkhorst will need to either concur with the changes or request a conference committee to hammer out the differences.
After that, the bill is sent to Governor Abbott for his signature to become law! He can sign the bill to become law, veto it, or let it become law without his signature. The last day the Governor can sign or veto bills is June 22.
If the bill becomes law, it will take effect September 1, 2025.
Link to bill: https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=SB541
