By: Sheffield (Senate Sponsor - Flores) H.B. No. 3552
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2019;
April 30, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Health &
Human Services; May 16, 2019, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 16, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain notice requirements regarding fluoridation of a
water supply system.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 341.033, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
(j) An owner, agent, manager, operator, or other person in
charge of a public water supply system that furnishes for public or
private use drinking water containing added fluoride may not
permanently terminate the fluoridation of the water unless the
owner, agent, manager, operator, or person provides written notice
to the customers of the system and the commission of the termination
at least 60 days before the termination.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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