1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to health; modifying provisions governing fluoridation of public water 
1.3 	supplies;amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 144.145.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 144.145, is amended to read:
1.6 	144.145 FLUORIDATION OF MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLIES.
1.7 	(a) For the purpose of promoting public health through prevention of tooth decay, the 
1.8 	person, firm, corporation, or municipality having jurisdiction over a municipal public water 
1.9 	supply, whether publicly or privately owned or operated, shall control:
1.10 	(1) whether to fluoridate the public water supply; and
1.11 	(2) the quantities of fluoride in the water in a public water supply that opts to fluoridate 
1.12 	so as to maintain a fluoride content that is within the parameters prescribed by the state
1.13 	commissioner of health. In the manner provided by law,
1.14 	(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), a person, firm, corporation, or municipality having 
1.15 	jurisdiction over a public water supply must not fluoridate water that contains naturally 
1.16 	occurring fluoride within the parameters for fluoride content established by the commissioner 
1.17 	of health in rule.
1.18 	(c) The state commissioner of health shall:
1.19 	(1) promulgate rules according to chapter 14 relating to the fluoridation of public water 
1.20 	supplies which shall that opt to fluoridate. The rules must include, but are not be limited to 
1.21 	the following:
2.1 	(i) parameters for fluoride content;
2.2 	(1) (ii) the means by which fluoride is controlled;
2.3 	(2) (iii) the methods of testing the fluoride content; and
2.4 	(3) (iv) the records to be kept relating to fluoridation. The state commissioner of health 
2.5 	shall; and
2.6 	(2) enforce the provisions of this section and rules adopted under this section for public 
2.7 	water supplies that opt to fluoridate. In so doing the commissioner shall require the 
2.8 	fluoridation of water in all municipal water supplies on or before January 1, 1970. The state 
2.9 	commissioner of health shall not require the fluoridation of water in any municipal water 
2.10 	supply where such water supply in the state of nature contains sufficient fluorides to conform 
2.11 	with the rules of such commissioner.
2.12 	(d) The commissioner of health is prohibited from requiring fluoridation of public water 
2.13 	supplies.