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Senate moves county-crossing fluoridation bill to third reading after heated debate
Summary
After an extended floor debate over whether residents should receive fluoridated water from a neighboring county, the Utah Senate voted to move House Bill 43 to the third-reading calendar. Supporters said the measure resolves a narrow water-supply problem; opponents warned it could force fluoridation on residents who did not vote for it.
House Bill 43, a proposal to allow a fluoridated water system in one county to supply water across county lines when a resident requests it, was advanced to the Utah Senate’s third-reading calendar after a lengthy floor debate on Jan. 31.
Proponents, including the bill’s floor sponsor, said the measure solves a concrete infrastructure problem: subdivisions that straddle or sit near county boundaries sometimes lack a local water supply and must take hookups from neighboring systems. “If we don’t pass this bill, those people are going to have to be…
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