By Brown S.B. No. 1477 76R8474 E A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring certified food managers in certain counties. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 437.0123(a), Health and Safety Code, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 (a) A county that has a population of at least 2.8 million 1-7 or a public health district at least part of which is in a county 1-8 that has a population of at least 2.8 million may require the 1-9 payment of a fee for issuing or renewing a permit or for performing 1-10 an inspection to enforce this chapter or a rule adopted under this 1-11 chapter. A county with a population of at least 2.8 million may 1-12 require a trained food manager to be on duty during the operating 1-13 hours of a food establishment. The training required of food 1-14 managers can be no more extensive than that specified under 1-15 Subchapter D, Chapter 438. A food establishment that handles only 1-16 prepackaged food and does not prepare or package food may not be 1-17 required to have a certified food manager under this 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.