S.B. No. 1089
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the certification of food service workers.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 438.046(b), (b-1), and (c), Health and
  Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (b)  [A local health jurisdiction that requires training for
  a food service worker shall accept as sufficient to meet the
  jurisdiction's training and testing requirements a training course
  that is accredited by the department and listed with the registry.]
  A food service worker trained in a course for the employees of a
  single entity is considered to have met a local health
  jurisdiction's training, [and] testing, and permitting
  requirements only as to food service performed for that entity.
         (b-1)  A food service worker trained in a food handler
  training course that is accredited by the American National
  Standards Institute or that is accredited by the department and
  listed with the registry is considered to have met a local health
  jurisdiction's training, testing, and permitting requirements. A
  local health jurisdiction may require a food establishment, as that
  term is defined by Section 438.101, to maintain on the premises of
  the food establishment a certificate of completion of the training
  course for employees of the food establishment.
         (c)  A local health jurisdiction may not charge a fee or
  require or issue a local food handler card for a certificate issued
  to a food service worker who provides proof of completion of an
  accredited course described by Subsection (b-1) [Any fee charged by
  a local health jurisdiction for a certificate issued to a food
  service worker trained by an accredited course listed in the
  registry may not exceed the lesser of:
               [(1)     the reasonable cost incurred by the jurisdiction
  in issuing the certificate; or
               [(2)     the fee charged by the jurisdiction to issue a
  certificate to a food service worker certified by the jurisdiction
  as having met the training and testing requirements by any other
  means].
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
 
 
 
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1089 passed the Senate on
  April 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
  the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 25, 2017, by the
  following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1089 passed the House, with
  amendment, on May 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144,
  Nays 0, two present not voting.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
 
  Approved:
 
  ______________________________ 
              Date
 
 
  ______________________________ 
            Governor