Texas 2019 - 86th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1030 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 02/22/2019

                            86R9710 KKR-D
 By: Hall S.B. No. 1030


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to the duty of a water supply system to provide certain
 information to consumers regarding fluoride in drinking water.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 341, Health and Safety
 Code, is amended by adding Section 341.0335 to read as follows:
 Sec. 341.0335.  FLUORIDATED WATER; DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN
 INFORMATION. (a)  Except as provided in Subsection (b), a water
 supply system that furnishes drinking water to which fluoride has
 been added shall disclose in a conspicuous place on the system's
 publicly accessible Internet website:
 (1)  the amount of fluoride that occurs naturally in
 the drinking water furnished by the system to a customer;
 (2)  the amount of fluoride added to the drinking water
 before distribution to a customer;
 (3)  the combined amount of fluoride in the drinking
 water from the sources described by Subdivisions (1) and (2);
 (4)  as applicable, the identity of:
 (A)  the person who supplies the fluoride
 additive; and
 (B)  the person with whom the system contracts to
 add fluoride to the drinking water; and
 (5)  the annual cost of adding fluoride to the drinking
 water distributed by the system, including the cost of the fluoride
 additive, the labor for adding the fluoride, and any contracts
 related to the fluoride additive.
 (b)  A water supply system that does not maintain an Internet
 website shall annually disclose the information required under
 Subsection (a) by including a copy of the information with a bill
 sent to the system's customers.
 SECTION 2.  A water supply system shall disclose the
 information required by Section 341.0335, Health and Safety Code,
 as added by this Act, not later than January 1, 2020.
 SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.