Bill > SB6434

This bill establishes a framework for the operation, authorization, and permitting of microenterprise home kitchens in Washington. Key provisions include: - Defining a "microenterprise home kitchen operation" as a food facility operated in a person's primary domestic residence where food is stored, handled, and prepared for consumers. - Directing the state board of health to adopt rules for authorizing, operating, and regulating these home kitchens, including restrictions on the types of food preparation allowed and limits on the number of meals that can be sold per day and week. - Requiring microenterprise home kitchens to obtain a permit from the local health board and submit standard operating procedures. - Allowing local health boards to inspect the permitted area of a home kitchen before initial permitting and up to once per year after, as well as in response to a foodborne outbreak or public health emergency. - Providing the local health board with enforcement options, such as issuing a warning, placing the kitchen on probation, or suspending or revoking the permit. - Exempting permitted microenterprise home kitchens from certain provisions of the state's food service code. - Requiring the Department of Health to compile and maintain public statistics on the number and distribution of permitted home kitchens.