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House Bill 1694 |
House Author: Lambert et al. |
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Effective: 9-1-19 |
Senate Sponsor: Johnson |
House Bill 1694 amends the Health and Safety Code to prohibit the Department of State Health Services and a local government authority from requiring a person providing food samples at a farm or farmers' market to obtain a permit. Among other provisions, the bill exempts a person who provides samples and does not sell food directly to consumers at the farm or farmers' market from statutory provisions regulating food samples at such locations and limits the type of food samples a cottage food production operation may provide at such locations to food produced by that operation.