1-1  By:  McDonald (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)           H.B. No. 2382
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1995;
    1-3  May 12, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State
    1-4  Affairs; May 22, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 22, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the training of food service workers.
    1-9        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-10        SECTION 1.  Section 438.043, Health and Safety Code, is
   1-11  amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
   1-12        (e)  The department may modify the requirements of Subsection
   1-13  (a), (b), or (c) for a course used in training employees under the
   1-14  common control of a single entity.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  Section 438.046(b), Health and Safety Code, is
   1-16  amended to read as follows:
   1-17        (b)  A local health jurisdiction that requires training for a
   1-18  food service worker shall accept as sufficient to meet the
   1-19  jurisdiction's training and testing requirements a training course
   1-20  that is accredited by the department and listed with the registry.
   1-21  A food service worker trained in a course for the employees of a
   1-22  single entity is considered to have met a local health
   1-23  jurisdiction's training and testing requirements only as to food
   1-24  service performed for that entity.
   1-25        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-26  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-27  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-28  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-29  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-30  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-31  passage, and it is so enacted.
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