Bill Text: TX SB582 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to training courses for certain food handlers.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB582 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB582-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 582 | ||
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| relating to training courses for certain food handlers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 438.046, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (b-1) A food service worker trained in a food handler | ||
| training course accredited by the American National Standards | ||
| Institute is considered to have met a local health jurisdiction's | ||
| training, testing, and permitting requirements. A local health | ||
| jurisdiction may require a food establishment, as that term is | ||
| defined by Section 438.101, to maintain on the premises of the food | ||
| establishment a certificate of completion of the training course | ||
| for employees of the food establishment. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 582 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 9, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that | ||
| the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 26, 2015, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 582 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 138, | ||
| Nays 0, two present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
