How many of you have baked an item for your son's band fundraiser? Or your church's cake walk? Did you know that it's illegal to do that in Texas? No kidding. http://www.texascottagefoodlaw.com/TexasFoodEstablishmentRules.htm
Now, obviously this is not a law that is enforced by local law officers, or all of those tents that sell food at the high school football games would have been shut down. And it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't even know about the law in the first place. Most of us have grown up with bake sales and cake walks. Why would anyone think that's illegal?
I would imagine that somewhere out there in Really Small Town Redneck, Texas there is a Billy Bad Ass who gets a perverse joy out of shutting down bake sales in his community. But I would be willing to bet that the majority of towns and cities in Texas don't even know this law exists. But it does. And at any given time law enforcement could pull the plug on the annual church bake sale and there's nothing you can do about it unless the law is changed.
So, if you often bake for these sales or purchase items from these sales, I urge you to email your representative in favor of passing HB 1139 The Texas Cottage Food Production Act, aka the "Texas Baker's Bill." and HB 2084 . The supporters of the Texas Baker's Bill also back a bill "with provisions," Cottage Food Production, HB 2084, filed by State Representative Lois Kolkhorst. Those provisions revise food handling safety and income caps.
To find out who to contact in your area, click on this link: http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/
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