Sec. 438.046. LIST OF ACCREDITED PROGRAMS. (a) The department shall maintain a registry of course programs accredited under this subchapter.
(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 requirements only as to food service performed for that entity.
(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.
(c) 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.
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 539, Sec. 16, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 822, Sec. 2, eff. Aug. 28, 1995.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 843 (S.B. 582), Sec. 1, eff. June 17, 2015.
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