Indiana Cottage Food Law

I petition my Indiana state legislators to enact a Cottage Food Bill or write an addendum to HEA 1309 authorizing the Department of Health Services and/or the Department of Agriculture to issue customized "Home Bakery" licenses to residential kitchens for the purpose of selling non-potentially-hazardous bakery products; such as, but not necessarily limited to: breads, cakes, doughnuts, pastries, buns, rolls, cookies, biscuits, and pies (except meat or cream pies).



This law will help create jobs for people who are out of work and for those who stay at home with their children. Licenses and permits cost money, which would bring in money for the entire state. This law will also add protection for those who have store front bakeries who would be able to conduct business from home if something were to happen to their business.



HEA 1309 does let you bake in the home, but you can only sell at two places, either a Farmers Market or Roadside stand.  Now everyone knows what a Farmers Market is, but a Roadside stand can be interpreted as a lemonade stand on your neighbors property.



This section really needs changed. 



I am proposing that we as home based vendors be able to sell out of our home-this does not mean opening a store, or putting out signs, it simply means when someone pre-orders a cake (which they can do now under the HEA 1309), they are able to walk to my door and pick it up.



There are over 20 states that currently have a Cottage Food Law and more states are enacting Cottage Food Laws for home bakers, and I am urging you and your fellow legislators to do so also.  The state could benefit by having a license to be a Home Based Vendor, although it wouldn't be inspected as already stated in HEA 1309. This would increase revenue for the state, not to mention sales tax that will be collected.



I am enclosing a link to the new Texas Law and urge you to read it, and act upon adding an addendum to HEA 1309, so that as we are now legal to bake our products from home, please make it legal to sell it from home also.
http://www.texascottagefoodlaw.com/TheLaw/LawSummary.aspx

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