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LouisianaSB 42026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

PUBLIC HEALTH: Provides relative to water fluoridation. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

Sponsored By: Michael "Big Mike" Fesi (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Health and Welfare

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Fluoride rules for larger water systems

Public water systems with at least 5,000 service connections must adjust natural fluoride levels outside the state's optimal range. They must acquire, install, operate, and maintain the needed equipment and materials. This duty applies only when identified state funds cover equipment acquisition, installation, and at least six months of fluoridation materials. Those six months start at initial installation. Louisiana's Office of Public Health must issue fluoridation rules to protect residents' oral health.

More water systems can skip fluoridation

Local governments can vote to exempt public water systems from fluoridation requirements. Systems are no longer barred from an exemption because they previously used fluoridation or had fluoride within the optimal range. The remaining exemption requirements in state law still apply; the provided text does not list them. Exemptions reduce systems' compliance duties, but residents served by exempt systems may have less access to fluoridated water.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Michael "Big Mike" Fesi

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Beryl Amedée

    Republican • House

  • Charles Owen

    Republican • House

  • Kathy Edmonston

    Republican • House

  • Kellee Hennessy Dickerson

    Republican • House

  • Kimberly Landry Coates

    Republican • House

  • Lauren Ventrella

    Republican • House

  • Raymond J. Crews

    Republican • House

  • Shane Mack

    Republican • House

  • Steven Jackson

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 94 • No: 45

House vote • 5/26/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 55, nays 38. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 55 • No: 38

House vote • 5/19/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 13 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/8/2026

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 7 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 26 • No: 7

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 731.

    6/2/2026Senate

  2. Effective date 6/2/2026.

    6/2/2026Senate

  3. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/29/2026House

  4. Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate.

    5/29/2026Senate

  5. Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/28/2026Senate

  6. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 55, nays 38. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    5/26/2026House

  7. Received from the House with amendments.

    5/26/2026Senate

  8. Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.

    5/25/2026House

  9. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/26/2026.

    5/25/2026House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/20/2026House

  11. Reported with amendments (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/19/2026House

  12. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    4/14/2026House

  13. Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.

    4/13/2026House

  14. Called from the Calendar.

    4/8/2026Senate

  15. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 7 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    4/8/2026Senate

  16. Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.

    3/24/2026Senate

  17. Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    3/23/2026Senate

  18. Reported with amendments.

    3/18/2026Senate

  19. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    3/9/2026Senate

  20. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    1/21/2026Senate

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