STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 53rd Legislature (2011)

SENATE BILL 202	By:	Justice

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to the regulation of prepared foods sold at farmers’ markets; directing the State Department of Health to conduct certain study; providing specifications for such study; requiring certain report by specified date; providing for noncodification; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law not to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:
The State Department of Health shall study ways to modify the regulation of foods prepared for sale at farmers’ markets.  Such study shall take into consideration models that reduce unnecessary regulation while protecting the health of the public from the dangers of foodborne illness.  The Department shall provide a written report of its findings to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives on or before December 31, 2011.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2011.

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