BILL REQ. #:  H-1172.1 

Read first time 01/27/11.   Referred to Committee on Health Care & Wellness.

     AN ACT Relating to food refrigeration and freezing standards; and adding a new section to chapter 70.05 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 70.05 RCW to read as follows:
     No local health jurisdiction may establish standards for refrigerating or freezing food that requires a business to purchase a specified type of refrigeration or freezing equipment if the refrigeration or freezing equipment that the business uses:
     (1) Is capable of complying with the temperature standards adopted by the state board of health; and
     (2) Was manufactured after January 1, 2000.