Tex. Health & Safety Code § 437B.004 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
RULES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The executive commissioner may adopt rules to implement this chapter. The rules must be narrowly tailored to address a demonstrable health or safety risk and may not:
(1) limit the number of mobile food vendor licenses the department may issue;
(2) address the hours of operation for mobile food vendors;
(3) restrict a mobile food vendor's propane capacity below the capacity state law allows for commercial vehicles; or
(4) require a mobile food vendor to:
(A) operate outside a specific perimeter of a commercial establishment or restaurant;
(B) enter into any agreement with a commercial establishment or restaurant, except as necessary to properly dispose of grease and other cooking waste;
(C) have an operational handwashing sink in the vehicle of a vendor who sells only prepackaged food;
(D) associate with a commissary if the vehicle carries the equipment necessary to comply with state law and properly disposes of grease and other cooking waste;
(E) provide the vendor's fingerprints as a condition of holding a mobile food vendor license;
(F) install a global positioning system tracking device on the vehicle;
(G) keep the vehicle in constant motion except when serving customers;
(H) submit to an additional fire inspection a vehicle the vendor demonstrates has passed a state or local fire inspection within the preceding 12 months; or
(I) submit to health inspections other than an inspection the department, or a local authority under a collaborative agreement, conducts unless the department is investigating a reported foodborne illness.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 744 (H.B. 2844), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.437B.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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