Florida Senate - 2025                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for CS for SB 700
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Berman moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 1472 and 1473
    4  insert:
    5         Section 33. Section 403.9285, Florida Statutes, is created
    6  to read:
    7         403.9285 Fluoridation program.—
    8         (1) As used in the section, the term:
    9         (a) “Department” means the Department of Agriculture and
   10  Consumer Services.
   11         (b) “Underserved area” means a geographic area with health
   12  care resources that are insufficient to meet the needs of the
   13  service population. The term includes medically underserved
   14  areas as defined in s. 381.4019.
   15         (2) The department shall develop a program to provide
   16  limited dental and oral hygiene services to residents of
   17  underserved areas in this state.
   18         (3)(a) The program must include community-centered events
   19  and educational opportunities focusing on oral hygiene
   20  instruction.
   21         (b) The program shall provide residents of underserved
   22  areas access to fluoride products, including fluoride
   23  toothpaste, fluoride tablets, and other fluoridated oral health
   24  products.
   25         (4) The department, in consultation with the Department of
   26  Health, shall adopt rules requiring any public water system that
   27  does not provide water fluoridation or has elected to stop
   28  providing water fluoridation services to notify residents
   29  serviced by such system that water fluoridation services are not
   30  being provided.
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   33  And the title is amended as follows:
   34         Between lines 183 and 184
   35  insert:
   36         creating s. 403.9285, F.S.; defining the terms
   37         “department” and “underserved area”; requiring the
   38         department to create a program to provide limited
   39         dental and oral hygiene services to certain areas;
   40         providing requirements for the program; requiring the
   41         department, in consultation with the Department of
   42         Health, to adopt certain rules;