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