A08680 Summary:
| BILL NO | A08680A |
| SAME AS | SAME AS S08283-A |
| SPONSOR | Burke |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Add §18-e, Gen City L | |
| 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. | |
A08680 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8680--A 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY 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: 1 Section 1. The general city law is amended by adding a new section 2 18-e to read as follows: 3 § 18-e. Additional notification requirements for cities seeking to 4 cease fluoridation. No city that fluoridates a public water supply or 5 causes a public water supply to become fluoridated shall discontinue the 6 addition of a fluoride compound to such public water supply unless such 7 city has first complied with section eleven hundred-a of the public 8 health law. Such city shall publish a notice including the date of such 9 discontinuance in local newspapers and on the city's website and social 10 media pages at least ninety days before the date of such discontinuance. 11 § 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