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. 1-32 * * * * *