Bill Text: FL S0532 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Food Service Inspections [SPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-08 - Read 3rd time -SJ 00519; Substituted CS/HB 295 -SJ 00519; Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 295 (Ch. 2010-28) -SJ 00519 [S0532 Detail]

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       Florida Senate - 2010                                     SB 532 
        
       By Senator Altman 
       24-00400-10                                            2010532__ 
    1                        A bill to be entitled                       
    2         An act relating to food service inspections; amending 
    3         s. 381.006, F.S.; requiring the Department of Health 
    4         to conduct annual food service inspections of 
    5         certified domestic violence centers; providing 
    6         requirements for such food service inspections; 
    7         amending s. 381.0072, F.S.; providing that the 
    8         definition of the term “food service establishment” 
    9         does not include certified domestic violence centers; 
   10         providing an effective date. 
   11   
   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
   13   
   14         Section 1. Present subsection (17) of section 381.006, 
   15  Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (18), and a new 
   16  subsection (17) is added to that section, to read: 
   17         381.006 Environmental health.—The department shall conduct 
   18  an environmental health program as part of fulfilling the 
   19  state’s public health mission. The purpose of this program is to 
   20  detect and prevent disease caused by natural and manmade factors 
   21  in the environment. The environmental health program shall 
   22  include, but not be limited to: 
   23         (17) Annual food service inspections of domestic violence 
   24  centers that are certified and monitored by the Department of 
   25  Children and Family Services pursuant to chapter 39. The 
   26  department shall limit such food service inspections to 
   27  compliance with the requirements in department rule which apply 
   28  to community-based residential facilities having five or fewer 
   29  residents; however, a certified domestic violence center is not 
   30  subject to any department requirements that apply to food 
   31  service establishments as defined in s. 381.0072. 
   32   
   33  The department may adopt rules to carry out the provisions of 
   34  this section. 
   35         Section 2. Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 
   36  381.0072, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 
   37         381.0072 Food service protection.—It shall be the duty of 
   38  the Department of Health to adopt and enforce sanitation rules 
   39  consistent with law to ensure the protection of the public from 
   40  food-borne illness. These rules shall provide the standards and 
   41  requirements for the storage, preparation, serving, or display 
   42  of food in food service establishments as defined in this 
   43  section and which are not permitted or licensed under chapter 
   44  500 or chapter 509. 
   45         (1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term: 
   46         (b) “Food service establishment” means any facility, as 
   47  described in this paragraph, where food is prepared and intended 
   48  for individual portion service, and includes the site at which 
   49  individual portions are provided. The term includes any such 
   50  facility regardless of whether consumption is on or off the 
   51  premises and regardless of whether there is a charge for the 
   52  food. The term includes detention facilities, child care 
   53  facilities, schools, institutions, civic or fraternal 
   54  organizations, bars and lounges and facilities used at temporary 
   55  food events, mobile food units, and vending machines at any 
   56  facility regulated under this section. The term does not include 
   57  private homes where food is prepared or served for individual 
   58  family consumption; nor does the term include churches, 
   59  synagogues, or other not-for-profit religious organizations as 
   60  long as these organizations serve only their members and guests 
   61  and do not advertise food or drink for public consumption, or 
   62  any facility or establishment permitted or licensed under 
   63  chapter 500 or chapter 509; nor does the term include any 
   64  theater, if the primary use is as a theater and if patron 
   65  service is limited to food items customarily served to the 
   66  admittees of theaters; nor does the term include a research and 
   67  development test kitchen limited to the use of employees and 
   68  which is not open to the general public; nor does the term 
   69  include any domestic violence center that is certified and 
   70  monitored by the Department of Children and Family Services 
   71  pursuant to chapter 39. 
   72         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.