Bill Text: TX HB1581 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the duty of a water supply system to provide certain information to consumers regarding fluoride in drinking water.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-11 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1581 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1581-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Simpson, et al. | H.B. No. 1581 |
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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 | ||
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 a website | ||
shall disclose annually the information required under Subsection | ||
(a) with a bill sent to its 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, 2016. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |