Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for, and provides for regulation by the State Department of Public Health of, retail food facilities, as defined, and requires local health agencies to enforce these provisions. The code requires a food handler to obtain a food handler card, as specified, and to maintain the card for the duration of his or her employment as a food handler. A person who violates any provision of the code is guilty of a misdemeanor, except as otherwise provided.
This bill would require an employee of a food delivery enterprise who is involved in the preparation, storage, or service of food as part of his or her employment to obtain a food handler card, as specified. The bill would define food delivery enterprise to mean a business organized for profit to receive food
orders from consumers, fulfill those orders, and deliver food to the consumers in their residences or another location, as may be specified by the consumer, and would specify that a food delivery enterprise does not include a food facility for purposes of the code. By imposing duties on local officials and creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by
the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.