By: Brown S.B. No. 1477 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to requiring certified food managers in certain counties. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 437.0123, Health and 1-4 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-5 (a) A county that has a population of at least 2.8 million 1-6 or a public health district at least part of which is in a county 1-7 that has a population of at least 2.8 million may require the 1-8 payment of a fee for issuing or renewing a permit or for performing 1-9 an inspection to enforce this chapter or a rule adopted under this 1-10 chapter. A county with a population of at least 2.8 million may 1-11 require a trained food manager to be on duty during the operating 1-12 hours of a food service establishment. The training required of 1-13 food managers can be no more extensive than that specified under 1-14 Subchapter D, Chapter 438. A food service establishment that 1-15 handles only prepackaged food and does not prepare or package food 1-16 may not be required to have a certified food manager under this 1-17 section. 1-18 SECTION 2. 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. 1-23 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 1-24 Amend S.B. No. 1477 in SECTION 1 of the bill, in amended 2-1 Section 437.0123(a), Health and Safety Code (senate engrossment 2-2 page 1, lines 11 and 12), by striking "the operating hours" and 2-3 substituting "each day of operation". 2-4 76R14692 JMM-D Hilderbran