SB582 and its impact on the Texas Food Handler Registration Process

City of Austin Food Handler UPDATE 5/26/15
Attention Environmental Health Services Division Customers
Due to approval by the Texas Legislation of SB582 Food Handlers are no longer required to register with City of Austin
Effective Immediately, EHSD No Longer Accepts Applications for Food Handler Registration
S.B. No. 582
AN ACT
relating to training courses for certain food handlers.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 438.046, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:

(b-1) A food service worker trained in a food handler
training course accredited by the American National Standards
Institute 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.

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, 2015.

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 582 passed the Senate on
April 9, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 26, 2015, by the
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 582 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 138,
Nays 0, two present not voting.

ANSI Website concerning SB582

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

Website: ANSI Website

ANSI Food Handler Vendors List: https://www.ansica.org/wwwversion2/outside/ALLdirectoryListing.asp?menuID=212&prgID=212&status=4