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Senate approves substitute letting shareholders of private water companies vote on fluoride
Summary
The Utah Senate approved a substitute to Senate Bill 29 that adds privately held corporate public water systems to the state's fluoridation statute and allows shareholders in those systems to hold a binding vote on whether to add or remove fluoride; the measure passed the floor vote and moves to third reading.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Senate on March 2 approved a first-substitute to Senate Bill 29 to extend the state's fluoridation notice and voting provisions to privately held corporate public water systems, allowing shareholders of those systems to vote on whether to add or remove fluoride from their water.
Sponsor Senator Stoll said the change corrects an oversight in the code and protects what he described as the property rights of shareholders in corporate water systems, not a declaration on whether fluoridation is good or bad. "This bill is not about whether fluoridation is good or bad," Stoll said. "It's about the rights of shareholders in a privately owned water system to choose…
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