1-1 By: Brown S.B. No. 1477 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; March 29, 1999, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 29, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to requiring certified food managers in certain counties. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 437.0123, Health and 1-11 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-12 (a) A county that has a population of at least 2.8 million 1-13 or a public health district at least part of which is in a county 1-14 that has a population of at least 2.8 million may require the 1-15 payment of a fee for issuing or renewing a permit or for performing 1-16 an inspection to enforce this chapter or a rule adopted under this 1-17 chapter. A county with a population of at least 2.8 million may 1-18 require a trained food manager to be on duty during the operating 1-19 hours of a food service establishment. The training required of 1-20 food managers can be no more extensive than that specified under 1-21 Subchapter D, Chapter 438. A food service establishment that 1-22 handles only prepackaged food and does not prepare or package food 1-23 may not be required to have a certified food manager under this 1-24 section. 1-25 SECTION 2. 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 * * * * *