Bill Text: TX SB1030 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the duty of a water supply system to provide certain information to consumers regarding fluoride in drinking water.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-07 - Referred to Water & Rural Affairs [SB1030 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB1030-Introduced.html

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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.