S08283 Summary:
| BILL NO | S08283A |
| SAME AS | SAME AS A08680-A |
| SPONSOR | RYAN C |
| 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. | |
S08283 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8283--A 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 30, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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. LBD13230-03-5