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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.