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Assembly Bill A8680A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires cities that fluoridate public water supplies to comply with certain provisions of law and publish a notice prior to discontinuing such fluoridation

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2025-A8680 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8283
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
General City Law
Laws Affected:
Add §18-e, Gen City L

2025-A8680 - Summary

Requires cities that fluoridate public water supplies to comply with certain provisions of law relating to fluoridation, and to publish a notice in local newspapers and on the city's website and social media pages at least ninety days prior to discontinuing such fluoridation.

2025-A8680 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8680
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 28, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BURKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Cities
 
 AN ACT to amend the general city law, in  relation  to  requiring  addi-
   tional  notice prior to the discontinuance of drinking water fluorida-
   tion
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  general  city law is amended by adding a new section
 18-e to read as follows:
   § 18-E. ADDITIONAL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS  FOR  CITIES  SEEKING  TO
 CEASE  FLUORIDATION.  NO  CITY THAT FLUORIDATES A PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY OR
 CAUSES A PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY TO BECOME FLUORIDATED SHALL DISCONTINUE THE
 ADDITION OF A FLUORIDE COMPOUND TO SUCH PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY UNLESS  SUCH
 CITY HAS FIRST ISSUED A DETERMINATION TO DISCONTINUE FLUORIDATION, WHICH
 SHALL INCLUDE THE JUSTIFICATION FOR SUCH DISCONTINUANCE. SUCH CITY SHALL
 PUBLISH  A  NOTICE  INCLUDING  THE  DATE OF SUCH DISCONTINUANCE IN LOCAL
 NEWSPAPERS AND ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE AT LEAST  NINETY  DAYS  BEFORE  THE
 DATE OF SUCH DISCONTINUANCE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13230-01-5

2025-A8680A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8283
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
General City Law
Laws Affected:
Add §18-e, Gen City L

2025-A8680A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires cities that fluoridate public water supplies to comply with certain provisions of law relating to fluoridation, and to publish a notice in local newspapers and on the city's website and social media pages at least ninety days prior to discontinuing such fluoridation.

2025-A8680A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8680--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 28, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BURKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Cities -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and  Means
   --  reported and referred to the Committee on Rules -- Rules Committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to the Committee on Rules

 AN ACT to amend the general city law, in  relation  to  requiring  addi-
   tional  notice prior to the discontinuance of drinking water fluorida-
   tion
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  general  city law is amended by adding a new section
 18-e to read as follows:
   § 18-E. ADDITIONAL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS  FOR  CITIES  SEEKING  TO
 CEASE  FLUORIDATION.  NO  CITY THAT FLUORIDATES A PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY OR
 CAUSES A PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY TO BECOME FLUORIDATED SHALL DISCONTINUE THE
 ADDITION OF A FLUORIDE COMPOUND TO SUCH PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY UNLESS  SUCH
 CITY  HAS  FIRST  COMPLIED  WITH  SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED-A OF THE PUBLIC
 HEALTH LAW. SUCH CITY SHALL PUBLISH A NOTICE INCLUDING THE DATE OF  SUCH
 DISCONTINUANCE  IN LOCAL NEWSPAPERS AND ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE AND SOCIAL
 MEDIA PAGES AT LEAST NINETY DAYS BEFORE THE DATE OF SUCH DISCONTINUANCE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13230-02-5

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