BILL REQ. #:  H-3802.1 

Read first time 01/16/08.   Referred to Committee on Health Care & Wellness.

     AN ACT Relating to a food and beverage service worker's permit; and amending RCW 69.06.030.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 69.06.030 and 1998 c 136 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) An applicant for a food and beverage service worker's permit under RCW 69.06.010 must submit documentation, in a format approved by the state board of health, that the applicant has tested negative for tuberculosis within twenty working days prior to the issuance of the permit. The state board of health may establish testing requirements for permit applicants for other infectious diseases that may threaten the public health at food service establishments.
     (2) It shall be unlawful for any person afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease that may be transmitted by food or beverage to work in or about any place where unwrapped or unpackaged food and/or beverage products are prepared or sold, or offered for sale for human consumption and it shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to employ a person so afflicted. Nothing in this section eliminates any authority or requirement to control or suppress communicable diseases pursuant to chapter 70.05 RCW and RCW 43.20.050(2)(e).