Bill Text: TX HB2107 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to information provided by a local health jurisdiction on food regulation.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-31 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2107 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2107-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to information provided by a local health jurisdiction on food regulation.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-31 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2107 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2107-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Capriglione, Rodriguez, Shaheen, Kacal | H.B. No. 2107 | |
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| relating to information provided by a local health jurisdiction on | ||
| food regulation. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter H, Chapter 438, Health | ||
| and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER H. INFORMATION ON DEPARTMENT OR LOCAL HEALTH | ||
| JURISDICTION FOOD REGULATION | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter H, Chapter 438, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 438.151 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 438.151. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "local | ||
| health jurisdiction" means a public health district, county, or | ||
| municipality that regulates food service establishments, retail | ||
| food stores, mobile food units, temporary food service | ||
| establishments, or roadside food vendors. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 438.152, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 438.152. REQUEST FOR INFORMATION. Unless otherwise | ||
| prohibited by state or federal law, on receipt of a written request | ||
| for information pertaining to the regulation of food under this | ||
| subtitle, the department or a local health jurisdiction shall | ||
| provide a reasonable and substantial response to the request not | ||
| later than the 30th day after the date the department or local | ||
| health jurisdiction receives the request. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 438.153, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 438.153. REQUEST FOR OFFICIAL DETERMINATION. (a) On | ||
| receipt of a written request regarding the applicability to a | ||
| specific circumstance of a regulation or the requirements for | ||
| compliance with the regulation, the department or local health | ||
| jurisdiction shall provide an official written determination | ||
| regarding the applicability of the regulation or the requirements | ||
| for compliance with the regulation to the requestor not later than | ||
| the 30th day after the date the department or local health | ||
| jurisdiction receives the request. | ||
| (b) An official determination made under this section is | ||
| valid until the regulation that is the subject of the determination | ||
| is amended by statute, [ |
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| jurisdiction regulation. | ||
| SECTION 5. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| a request for information or official determination made under | ||
| Subchapter H, Chapter 438, Health and Safety Code, as amended by | ||
| this Act, to a local health jurisdiction on or after January 1, | ||
| 2020. A request for information or official determination made to a | ||
| local health jurisdiction before January 1, 2020, is governed by | ||
| the law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, | ||
| and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
