SB 627

Under current law, no person may conduct, maintain, manage, or operate a

restaurant unless the operator or manager of the restaurant holds a current, valid

certificate of food protection practices (FPP certificate) issued by the Department of

Health Services (DHS) or, in certain cases, a local health department. Current law

defines "restaurant" to include any public or private school lunchroom for which food

service is provided by contract, but excludes from the definition of "restaurant" any

public or private school lunchroom for which food service is directly provided by the

school. A person may obtain an FPP certificate by satisfactorily completing a written

examination that demonstrates the individual's basic knowledge of food protection

practices or by achieving comparable compliance. An FPP certificate is valid for five

years and may be renewed if the holder of the FPP certificate satisfactorily completes

an approved recertification training course.

This bill provides, in addition to the provision under current law requiring an

FPP certificate for a restaurant, that no person may conduct, maintain, manage, or

operate a school lunchroom that is in a school that is participating in the National

School Lunch Program operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and for

which food service is directly provided by the school unless the operator or manager

of the lunchroom, or his or her designee, holds a current, valid FPP certificate issued

by DHS or a local health department.