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.
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