HB 498 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Prohibit adding fluoride to public water supply systems

House Bill 498 aimed to prohibit the addition of fluoride to public water supply systems across the state. The bill would have amended existing state law to make introducing fluoride into a public water supply system a prohibited act. This change would have directly affected public water providers and the communities they serve by ending the practice of water fluoridation. It also sought to align the department's rule-making authority with this new prohibition.
Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Feb 13, 2025 Last action May 20, 2025
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The bill was re-introduced with a completely different set of sponsors, indicating a change in legislative support or a new version of the bill. No substantive policy changes, such as new definitions, funding amounts, or eligibility criteria, were made in this specific text segment.
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The list of bill sponsors was replaced with a new set of names, while the bill number and title remained the same.

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Actions timeline

Total actions
15
Key actions
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Committee
1
Amendments
1
Feb 25, 2025
Amended
(H) Tabled in Committee - (H) Human Services
lower
Feb 14, 2025
Committee
(H) Referred to Committee - (H) Human Services
lower
Feb 13, 2025
Introduced
(H) Introduced
lower
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Sponsors

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Lukas Schubert
RRepublican
MT
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