AMENDING THE LAW CONCERNING PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS; AND TO ALLOW VOTERS TO ELECT "FOR" OR "AGAINST" WATER FLUORIDATION.

Senate Bill 282 proposed to amend Arkansas law regarding public water systems. It would have allowed customers of public water systems serving 5,000 or more people to hold an election to determine whether their water should be fluoridated. An election could be initiated by a petition signed by at least five percent of voters in each affected county or by a majority vote of a county's quorum court. If a majority of voters in a majority of the counties supplied by the system voted to prohibit fluoridation, the water system would have been required to cease fluoridating the water within 30 days.