Bill Text: MI SB0441 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Food; other; exemption of a prison where private contractors serve food regulated as a food establishment; remove. Amends sec. 1107 of 2000 PA 92 (MCL 289.1107). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0440'15

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-09-09 - Referred To Committee On Government Operations [SB0441 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-SB0441-Introduced.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SENATE BILL No. 441

 

 

July 15, 2015, Introduced by Senator CASPERSON.

 

 

     A bill to amend 2000 PA 92, entitled

 

"Food law,"

 

by amending section 1107 (MCL 289.1107), as amended by 2012 PA 178.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1107. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Department" means the department of agriculture and rural

 

development.

 

     (b) "Director" means the director of the department or his or

 

her designee.

 

     (c) "Domestic residence" means a single-family dwelling or an

 

area within a rental unit where a single person or family actually

 

resides. Domestic residence does not include either of the

 

following:

 

     (i) A group or communal residential setting within any type of

 


structure.

 

     (ii) An outbuilding, shed, barn, or other similar structure.

 

     (d) "Egg" does not include a balut, which is an embryo inside

 

a fertile egg that has been incubated for a period sufficient for

 

the embryo to reach a specific stage of development after which it

 

is removed from incubation before hatching.

 

     (e) "Evaluation" means a food safety audit, inspection, or

 

food safety and sanitation assessment, whether announced or

 

unannounced, that identifies violations or verifies compliance with

 

this act and determines the degree of active control by food

 

establishment operators over foodborne illness risk factors.

 

     (f) "Extended retail food establishment" means a retail

 

grocery that does both of the following:

 

     (i) Serves or provides an unpackaged food for immediate

 

consumption.

 

     (ii) Provides customer seating in the food service area.

 

     (g) "Fair" means a fair or exhibition operated and managed

 

under 1929 PA 11, MCL 46.151 to 46.153, or held by an agricultural

 

or horticultural society under 1855 PA 80, MCL 453.231 to 453.240.

 

     (h) "Fair concession" means a food concession, storage,

 

preparation, or dispensing operation at a state or county fair.

 

     (i) "Farmers' market" means a public and recurring assembly of

 

farmers or their representatives selling directly to consumers food

 

and products that the farmers have produced themselves. In

 

addition, the market may include a variety of other vendors as

 

determined by market management.

 

     (j) "Federal act" means the federal food, drug, and cosmetic

 


act, chapter 675, 52 Stat. 1040, 21 USC 301 to 399d.399f.

 

     (k) "Festival" means an event, staged by a local community or

 

local organization, that centers on and celebrates a certain aspect

 

of that community or organization. Festival includes, but is not

 

limited to, a fair, art show, chili cook-off, car show, hot air

 

balloon festival, religious festival, drama festival, or cultural

 

festival.

 

     (l) "First receiver" means a person who receives eggs from a

 

producer at any place of business and candles, grades, sorts,

 

packs, or packages the eggs.

 

     (m) "Food" means articles used for food or drink for humans or

 

other animals, chewing gum, and articles used for components of any

 

such article.

 

     (n) "Food additive" means any substance, the intended use of

 

which, directly or indirectly, results in or may be reasonably

 

expected to result in its becoming a component or otherwise

 

affecting the characteristics of any food if that substance is not

 

generally recognized among experts as having been adequately shown

 

through scientific procedures to be safe under the conditions of

 

its intended use. Food additive includes any substance intended for

 

use in producing, manufacturing, packing, processing, preparing,

 

treating, packaging, transporting, or holding food and includes any

 

source of radiation intended for any use. Food additive does not

 

include any of the following:

 

     (i) A pesticide chemical in or on a raw agricultural

 

commodity.

 

     (ii) A pesticide chemical to the extent that it is intended

 


for use or is used in the production, storage, or transportation of

 

any raw agricultural commodity.

 

     (iii) A color additive.

 

     (iv) Any substance used in accordance with a sanction or

 

approval granted before the enactment of the food additives

 

amendment of 1958, Public Law 85-929, pursuant to under the federal

 

act, the poultry products inspection act, 21 USC 451 to 472, or the

 

federal meat inspection act, 21 USC 601 to 683.

 

     (o) "Food code" means food code, 2009 recommendations of the

 

food and drug administration Food and Drug Administration of the

 

United States public health service Public Health Service that

 

regulates the design, construction, management, and operation of

 

certain food establishments.

 

     (p) "Food establishment" means an operation where food is

 

processed, packed, canned, preserved, frozen, fabricated, stored,

 

prepared, served, sold, or offered for sale. Food establishment

 

includes, but is not limited to, a food processor, a food

 

warehouse, a food service establishment, and a retail grocery. Food

 

establishment does not include any of the following:

 

     (i) A charitable, religious, fraternal, or other nonprofit

 

organization operating a home-prepared baked goods sale or serving

 

only home-prepared food in connection with its meetings or as part

 

of a fund-raising event.

 

     (ii) An inpatient food operation located in a health facility

 

or agency subject to licensure under article 17 of the public

 

health code, MCL 333.20101 to 333.22260.

 

     (iii) A Subject to section 80 of the corrections code of 1953,

 


1953 PA 232, MCL 791.280, a food operation located in a prison,

 

jail, state mental health institute, boarding house, fraternity or

 

sorority house, convent, or other facility where the facility is

 

the primary residence for the occupants and the food operation is

 

limited to serving meals to the occupants as part of their living

 

arrangement.

 

     (q) "Food processor" means a food establishment that

 

processes, manufactures, wholesales, packages, labels, or stores

 

food. Food processor does not include a maple syrup producer.

 

Processing is an act, such as canning, freezing, dehydrating,

 

drying, distilling, extracting, preserving, grinding, crushing,

 

milling, washing, trimming, packing, or otherwise preserving or

 

changing the form of a food.

 

     (r) "Food safety and sanitation assessment" means judging or

 

assessing specific food handling activities, events, conditions, or

 

management systems in an effort to determine their potential

 

effectiveness in controlling risks for foodborne illness and

 

required compliance with this act, accompanied by a report of

 

findings.

 

     (s) "Food safety audit" means the methodical examination and

 

review of records, food sources, food handling procedures, and

 

facility cleaning and sanitation practices for compliance with this

 

act, accompanied by a report of findings. Food safety audit

 

includes checking or testing, or both, of observable practices and

 

procedures to determine compliance with standards contained in or

 

adopted by this act, accompanied by a report of findings.

 

     (t) "Food service establishment" means a fixed or mobile

 


restaurant, coffee shop, cafeteria, short order cafe, luncheonette,

 

grill, tearoom, sandwich shop, soda fountain, tavern, bar, cocktail

 

lounge, nightclub, drive-in, industrial feeding establishment,

 

private organization serving the public, rental hall, catering

 

kitchen, delicatessen, theater, commissary, food concession, or

 

similar place in which food or drink is prepared for direct

 

consumption through service on the premises or elsewhere, and any

 

other eating or drinking establishment or operation where food is

 

served or provided for the public. Food service establishment does

 

not include any of the following:

 

     (i) A motel that serves continental breakfasts only.

 

     (ii) A bed and breakfast that has 10 or fewer sleeping rooms

 

for rent.

 

     (iii) A bed and breakfast that has more than 10 sleeping rooms

 

for rent, if the bed and breakfast serves continental breakfasts

 

only.

 

     (iv) A child care organization regulated under 1973 PA 116,

 

MCL 722.111 to 722.128, unless the establishment is carrying out an

 

operation considered by the director to be a food service

 

establishment.

 

     (u) "Food warehouse" means a food establishment that stores or

 

distributes food for wholesale.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.

 

     Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No. 440                                    

 

            of the 98th Legislature is enacted into law.

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