HB462 Alabama 2017 Session

Under existing law, the Alabama Department of Public Health may exercise general control and regulate the enforcement of the laws relating to public health. The Alabama Department of Public Health also has the authority to adopt rules providing proper methods and details for administering the health and quarantine laws of the state, which rules have the force and effect of law

This bill would prohibit the Alabama Department of Public Health from regulating food preparation and distribution by an intermittent food service establishment that otherwise does not prepare, sell, or distribute food on a regular basis or in its regular line of business when that establishment prepares or distributes food in association with a regional celebration or tradition

Relating to food service operations; to prohibit the Alabama Department of Public Health from regulating or requiring a permit for an intermittent food service establishment that otherwise does not prepare, sell, or distribute food in its regular line of business when that food service establishment prepares or distributes food in association with a regional celebration or tradition.