HLS 14RS-840 ORIGINAL
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Regular Session, 2014
HOUSE BILL NO. 827
BY REPRESENTATIVE WOODRUFF
HEALTH/DHH: Requires food service establishment inspection reports to be made
publicly available
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 40:5.5(B), relative to the inspection of food service2
establishments; to require inspection reports to be posted on the Department of3
Health and Hospitals' Internet website within seven days of completion of the4
inspection; and to provide for related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 40:5.5(B) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 7
ยง5.5. Sanitary inspections of certain restaurants; food safety certificates8
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B.(1) No person, other than a representative of the restaurant, shall be10
notified by the department of the time and place of the inspection prior thereto and11
shall be nontransferable.12
(2) The Department of Health and Hospitals shall make all food service13
establishment inspection reports publicly available by posting a full and complete14
copy of each report on the department's Internet website no later than seven days15
after completion of the inspection.16
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HB NO. 827
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Woodruff HB No. 827
Abstract: Requires food service establishment inspection reports to be posted on the Dept.
of Health and Hospitals' Internet website within seven days of completion of the
inspection.
Present law provides for the sanitary inspection of food service establishments.
Proposed law retains present law and adds the requirement that the Dept. of Health and
Hospitals make all food service establishment inspection reports publicly available by
posting a full and complete copy of each report on the department's Internet website no later
than seven days after completion of the inspection.
(Amends R.S. 40:5.5(B))