By: Armbrister S.B. No. 1081 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the training of food service workers. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Section 438.043, Health and Safety Code, is 1-4 amended by adding Subsection 438.043(e) to read as follows: 1-5 (e) The department may modify the requirements of 1-6 Subsections (a), (b) and (c) for a course used in training 1-7 employees under the common control of a single entity. 1-8 SECTION 2. Section 438.046(b), Health and Safety Code, is 1-9 amended to read as follows: 1-10 (b) A local health jurisdiction that requires training for a 1-11 food service worker shall accept as sufficient to meet the 1-12 jurisdiction's training and testing requirements a training course 1-13 that is accredited by the department and listed with the registry. 1-14 A food service worker trained in a course for the employees of a 1-15 single entity shall be deemed to have met a local jurisdiction's 1-16 training and testing requirements only as to food service performed 1-17 for that entity. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.