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CA SB476
Bill
AI Summary
- Requires employers to pay food handlers for time spent completing food handler training and examinations, and to relieve them of all other work duties during training.
- Prohibits employers from conditioning employment on applicants or employees already having a valid food handler card.
- Requires employers to pay for any necessary expenditures or losses associated with obtaining a food handler card, consistent with Labor Code Section 2802.
- Mandates the State Department of Public Health post links to ANSI-accredited food handler training programs on its website by January 1, 2025, with local health departments required to link to that page.
- Extends these new employer requirements to food handlers subject to existing local food handler programs that took effect before January 1, 2009.
Legislative Description
Food safety: food handlers.
Last Action
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 610, Statutes of 2023.
10/8/2023
Committee Referrals
Appropriations6/21/2023
Health6/8/2023
Appropriations3/23/2023
Health2/22/2023
Rules2/14/2023
Full Bill Text
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