Bill Text: FL H0295 | 2010 | Regular Session | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Food Service/Domestic Violence Centers/Group Care [SPSC]

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-2)

Status: (Passed) 2010-04-27 - Approved by Governor -HJ 01180; Chapter No. 2010-28 [H0295 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-H0295-Engrossed.html

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CS/HB 295

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to food service inspections of domestic
3	violence centers and group care homes; amending s.
4	381.006, F.S.; including the investigation of food service
5	programs for domestic violence centers and group care
6	homes within the Department of Health's environmental
7	health program; amending s. 381.0072, F.S.; revising the
8	definition of the term "food service establishment" to
9	exclude domestic violence centers under certain
10	conditions; providing an effective date.
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12	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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14	Section 1. Subsection (18) is added to section 381.006,
15	Florida Statutes, to read:
16	381.006 Environmental health.-The department shall conduct
17	an environmental health program as part of fulfilling the
18	state's public health mission. The purpose of this program is to
19	detect and prevent disease caused by natural and manmade factors
20	in the environment. The environmental health program shall
21	include, but not be limited to:
22	(18) A food service inspection function for domestic
23	violence centers that are certified and monitored by the
24	Department of Children and Family Services under part XIII of
25	chapter 39 and group care homes as described in subsection (16),
26	which shall be conducted annually and be limited to the
27	requirements in department rule applicable to community-based
28	residential facilities with five or fewer residents.
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31	The department may adopt rules to carry out the provisions of
32	this section.
33	Section 2. Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section
34	381.0072, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
35	381.0072 Food service protection.-It shall be the duty of
36	the Department of Health to adopt and enforce sanitation rules
37	consistent with law to ensure the protection of the public from
38	food-borne illness. These rules shall provide the standards and
39	requirements for the storage, preparation, serving, or display
40	of food in food service establishments as defined in this
41	section and which are not permitted or licensed under chapter
42	500 or chapter 509.
43	(1) DEFINITIONS.-As used in this section, the term:
44	(b) "Food service establishment" means any facility, as
45	described in this paragraph, where food is prepared and intended
46	for individual portion service, and includes the site at which
47	individual portions are provided. The term includes any such
48	facility regardless of whether consumption is on or off the
49	premises and regardless of whether there is a charge for the
50	food. The term includes detention facilities, child care
51	facilities, schools, institutions, civic or fraternal
52	organizations, bars and lounges and facilities used at temporary
53	food events, mobile food units, and vending machines at any
54	facility regulated under this section. The term does not include
55	private homes where food is prepared or served for individual
56	family consumption; nor does the term include churches,
57	synagogues, or other not-for-profit religious organizations as
58	long as these organizations serve only their members and guests
59	and do not advertise food or drink for public consumption, or
60	any facility or establishment permitted or licensed under
61	chapter 500 or chapter 509; nor does the term include any
62	theater, if the primary use is as a theater and if patron
63	service is limited to food items customarily served to the
64	admittees of theaters; nor does the term include a research and
65	development test kitchen limited to the use of employees and
66	which is not open to the general public; nor does the term
67	include a domestic violence center certified and monitored by
68	the Department of Children and Family Services under part XIII
69	of chapter 39 if the center does not prepare and serve food to
70	its residents and does not advertise food or drink for public
71	consumption.
72	Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.