Report Title:

Food Establishment Sanitation

 

Description:

Requires the DOH to adopt rules requiring food establishments to provide permanent or portable handwashing facilities for their seated customers, if any, and to maintain these facilities in a clean and sanitary condition. Exempts mobile food establishments and temporary food establishments. Takes effect on 7/1/01.

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

608

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to food establishments.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Chapter 321, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part I to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§321- Food establishments; handwashing facilities. (a) For the purposes of this section only:

"Food establishment" means any place, or portion thereof, where food is served or provided to the public, with or without charge, regardless of whether the food is consumed on or off the premises.

"Handwashing facility" means a facility providing either a basin, container, or outlet with an adequate supply of potable water, soap, and single-use towels.

"Mobile food establishment" means a vehicle-mounted food establishment capable of being readily moved, which operates in conjunction with a commissary. The term includes licensed trailer-type vehicles, push carts, lunchwagons, tour cruise boats, and peddlers.

"Temporary food establishment" means any food establishment that operates at a fixed location for a limited period of time and does not exceed twenty days in any one hundred twenty day period and does not sell products to other food establishments.

(b) The department of health shall adopt rules requiring food establishments to provide permanent or portable handwashing facilities for their seated customers, if any, and to maintain these facilities in a clean and sanitary condition.

(c) Subsection (b) shall not apply to mobile food establishments or temporary food establishments."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001.

INTRODUCED BY:

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