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1		-	85R20668 DMS-F
2		-	By: Perry, et al. S.B. No. 1089
3		-	(Burkett, Frullo)
4		-	Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1089: No.
	1	+	S.B. No. 1089
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7		-	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	4		AN ACT
9	5		relating to the certification of food service workers.
10	6		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	7		SECTION 1. Sections 438.046(b), (b-1), and (c), Health and
12	8		Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
13	9		(b) [A local health jurisdiction that requires training for
14	10		a food service worker shall accept as sufficient to meet the
15	11		jurisdiction's training and testing requirements a training course
16	12		that is accredited by the department and listed with the registry.]
17	13		A food service worker trained in a course for the employees of a
18	14		single entity is considered to have met a local health
19	15		jurisdiction's training, [and] testing, and permitting
20	16		requirements only as to food service performed for that entity.
21	17		(b-1) A food service worker trained in a food handler
22	18		training course that is accredited by the American National
23	19		Standards Institute or that is accredited by the department and
24	20		listed with the registry is considered to have met a local health
25	21		jurisdiction's training, testing, and permitting requirements. A
26	22		local health jurisdiction may require a food establishment, as that
27	23		term is defined by Section 438.101, to maintain on the premises of
28	24		the food establishment a certificate of completion of the training
29	25		course for employees of the food establishment.
30	26		(c) A local health jurisdiction may not charge a fee or
31	27		require or issue a local food handler card for a certificate issued
32	28		to a food service worker who provides proof of completion of an
33	29		accredited course described by Subsection (b-1) [Any fee charged by
34	30		a local health jurisdiction for a certificate issued to a food
35	31		service worker trained by an accredited course listed in the
36	32		registry may not exceed the lesser of:
37	33		[(1) the reasonable cost incurred by the jurisdiction
38	34		in issuing the certificate; or
39	35		[(2) the fee charged by the jurisdiction to issue a
40	36		certificate to a food service worker certified by the jurisdiction
41	37		as having met the training and testing requirements by any other
42	38		means].
43	39		SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
44	40		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
45	41		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
46	42		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
47	43		Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
	44	+	______________________________ ______________________________
	45	+	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
	46	+	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1089 passed the Senate on
	47	+	April 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
	48	+	the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 25, 2017, by the
	49	+	following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
	50	+	______________________________
	51	+	Secretary of the Senate
	52	+	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1089 passed the House, with
	53	+	amendment, on May 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144,
	54	+	Nays 0, two present not voting.
	55	+	______________________________
	56	+	Chief Clerk of the House
	57	+	Approved:
	58	+	______________________________
	59	+	Date
	60	+	______________________________
	61	+	Governor