98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB5354

 

Introduced , by Rep. Charles E. Meier

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
410 ILCS 625/3.4 new

    Amends the Food Handling Regulation Enforcement Act. Defines "home kitchen operation" and provides that neither the Department of Public Health nor the health department of a unit of local government may regulate the service of food by a home kitchen operation. Effective immediately.


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HOME RULE NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

HB5354LRB098 19952 RPM 55177 b

1    AN ACT concerning public health.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Food Handling Regulation Enforcement Act is
5amended by adding Section 3.4 as follows:
 
6    (410 ILCS 625/3.4 new)
7    Sec. 3.4. Home kitchen operation.
8    (a) For the purpose of this Section, "home kitchen
9operation" means a person who produces or packages
10non-potentially hazardous food in a kitchen of that person's
11primary domestic residence for direct sale by the owner or a
12family member, or for sale by a religious, charitable, or
13nonprofit organization, stored in the residence where the food
14is made. The following conditions must be met in order to
15qualify as a home kitchen operation:
16        (1) Monthly gross sales do not exceed $1,000.
17        (2) The food is not a potentially hazardous baked food,
18    as defined in Section 4 of this Act.
19        (3) A notice is provided to the purchaser that the
20    product was produced in a home kitchen.
21    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, neither the
22Department of Public Health nor the health department of a unit
23of local government may regulate the service of food by a home

 

 

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1kitchen operation.
 
2    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
3becoming law.