By: Hall S.B. No. 2653
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the prohibition on water fluoridation; creating a
penalty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 5, Chapter 341, Subchapter A,
Texas Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding new Section
341.033 (j) to read as follows:
Sec. 341.033 (j) FLUORIDE INTRODUCTION PROHIBITED.
(a) For the purposes of this section:
(1) "Commission" means the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality.
(2) "Fluoride" means any chemical compound containing
the fluoride ion, including sodium fluoride, hydrofluoric acid,
sodium silicofluoride, and fluorosilicic acid;
(3) "Public water supply" means a water system that
provides water for human consumption through pipes or other
constructed conveyances to at least fifteen service connections or
serves an average of at least twenty-five people for at least sixty
days a year.
(b) A person may not add or cause to be added any form of
fluoride to any public water supply for the purpose of
fluoridation, regardless of the intended concentration.
(c) This section does not apply to any water treatment
process where fluoride is naturally occurring in a water source or
the use of fluoride for an industrial or manufacturing process not
related to public water treatment.
(d) A person in violation of this section is subject to a
fine of five hundred dollars, and subject to a fine of one thousand
dollars for a subsequent violation.
(e) The Commission shall enforce this section.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.