By McDonald                                           H.B. No. 2382
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the training of food service workers.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 438.043, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Subsection 438.043(e) to read as follows:
    1-6        (e)  The department may modify the requirements of
    1-7  Subsections (a), (b) and (c) for a course used in training
    1-8  employees under the common control of a single entity.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  Section 438.046(b), Health and Safety Code, is
   1-10  amended to read as follows:
   1-11        (b)  A local health jurisdiction that requires training for a
   1-12  food service worker shall accept as sufficient to meet the
   1-13  jurisdiction's training and testing requirements a training course
   1-14  that is accredited by the department and listed with the registry.
   1-15  A food service worker trained in a course for the employees of a
   1-16  single entity shall be deemed to have met a local jurisdiction's
   1-17  training and testing requirements only as to food service performed
   1-18  for that entity.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house to be suspended, and this rule is hereby
    2-1  suspended.