HB4688enr 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB4688 Enrolled LRB099 15961 MGM 40278 b

AN ACT concerning the environment.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Public Water Supply Regulation Act is amended by changing Section 7a as follows:

(415 ILCS 40/7a) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 121g1)

Sec. 7a. In order to protect the dental health of all citizens, especially children, the owners or official custodians of public water supplies shall be in compliance with the Department shall promulgate rules to provide for the addition of fluoride to public water supplies by the owners or official custodians thereof. Such rules shall incorporate the recommendations on optimal fluoridation for community water levels as proposed and adopted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the rules and regulations adopted by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the Pollution Control Board.

(Source: P.A. 97-43, eff. 6-28-11.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.