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Kentucky · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 16: AN ACT relating to water fluoridation programs.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 16 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky House on January 7, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to water fluoridation programs. Most recent recorded action (March 4, 2025): to Health Services (S).

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Amend KRS 211.190 to make water fluoridation programs optional; allow the governing bodies of water systems subject to regulation by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to decide whether they participate in water fluoridation programs; provide that a water fluoridation program in place on the effective date of the Act continues until action is taken by its governing body to end its participation; provide that any decision regarding participation in a water fluoridation program made by the governing body of a water system shall be binding on all water systems it supplies.

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
No sponsor recorded in source data.

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. to Health Services (S)
  2. to Committee on Committees (S)
  3. received in Senate
  4. passed 68-29
  5. floor amendment defeated Floor Amendment (1)
  6. 3rd reading
  7. floor amendment withdrawn Floor Amendment (2)
  8. floor amendment (2) filed
  9. posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 25, 2025
  10. floor amendment (1) filed
  11. 2nd reading, to Rules
  12. reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar

Showing 12 most recent of 15 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source