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          Date of Hearing:   July 13, 2011

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                    SB 303 (Padilla) - As Amended:  July 11, 2011 

          Policy Committee:                              HealthVote:19 - 0 


          Urgency:     Yes                  State Mandated Local Program: 
          Yes    Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill clarifies that existing law requiring a food handler 
          to obtain a food handler card only applies to food handlers 
          employed at a food facility that sells food for human 
          consumption to the general public. In addition, this bill 
          requires that after January 1, 2012, a food handler must obtain 
          a food handler card exclusively from a nationally accredited 
          training provider. Finally, the bill clarifies that snack bars, 
          prisons and county jails, and elderly nutrition programs are 
          exempt from the food handler certification requirements. 

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          There are no significant costs associated with this legislation. 


           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale  . This bill is intended as clean up legislation for 
            last year's SB 602 (Padilla; Chapter 309, Statutes of 2010). 
            Specifically, this bill is intended to clarify that food 
            handlers are required to get a certification card from a 
            provider accredited by the American National Standards 
            Institute (ANSI) and to clarify which types of eating 
            establishments are required to have certified food handlers. 

           2)Related Legislation  . SB 602 requires food handlers, with 








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            specified exceptions, to obtain a card after taking a food 
            safety training course and passing an assessment beginning on 
            June 1, 2011, and mandates at least one of the accredited food 
            safety certification examinations required under current law 
            to be offered online.


           Analysis Prepared by  :    Julie Salley-Gray / APPR. / (916) 
          319-2081