TAKE ACTION: SUPPORT MA Bills to End Water Fluoridation

Health Rights MA supports the following bills. Below you will find a support letter template to get you started and a link to find your lawmakers. A phone call is worth at least 100 emails, so please do both! A meeting is worth 1000 emails, so please get one of those if you can. A Health Rights MA member would be happy to attend with you.

 

S.1517 /  H.2548 An Act banning artificial fluoridation schemes

Sen. Durant and Rep.Thurber filed these bills by citizen request.

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S1517

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H2548

This is a simple bill that replaces the current MA Fluoridation Law

 

S.1518 / H.2549  An Act relative to fluoride in water warnings

Sen. Durant and Rep.Thurber filed these bills by citizen request.

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S1518

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H2549

This bill requires language on the annual water report warning susceptible populations whenever the fluoride concentration in drinking water is at or above 0.3 ppm

 

S.1630  / H.2449 An Act providing municipalities to opt out of fluoridation treatments

Sponsored by Senator Bruce Tarr sponsored the Senate version, and Rep. Natalie Higgins filed the House version by citizen request. 

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S1630

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H2449

This bill corrects an “oversight” in the odd MA law by providing a legal way for communities governed by that law to end fluoridation once begun without needing a “Special Act” that exempts the community from the MA law (Chapter 111, Section 8C) as written. This undoes the de facto state mandate and clarifies the process for local action.

Why are these bills needed? 
As of May 4, 2025, Utah and Florida have banned community water fluoridation. Nearly 100 communities in other states have exerted local control to end fluoridation, and another 100 communities across America are currently considering doing the same. Quebec and British Columbia are over 99% unfluoridated, having abandoned those schemes bit by bit over the past dozen years.

Over a dozen U.S. states have fluoridation legislation pending, either to ban community water fluoridation programs outright or to rescind state mandates in favor of local control. These states include Massachusetts and Maine.

Massachusetts has an unusual law that functions as a de facto mandate for communities that have already begun fluoridating. These communities cannot end fluoridation (or even reduce fluoride levels) without a direct order from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health—unless they formally petition the Commonwealth for an exemption from the law in order to establish Home Rule, which would allow the municipality to implement a local ordinance banning fluoridation. Some Massachusetts water districts already have Home Rule status based on their original charters, which exempt them from the Massachusetts Fluoridation Law (Chapter 111, Section 8C)

Fluoride affects some people more than others, dependent on genetic susceptibility, individual factors, and dose/exposure. Those who drink more water have higher dose/exposures. Consequently, it is immoral to use water systems to deliver uncontrollable individual doses of fluoride to consumers who are susceptible to ill effects. Since fluoride permeates the blood-brain and placental barriers, affects thyroid and kidney function, and is stored in bones with a half-life of 20 years, fluoridation policy poisons us from womb to tomb!


RESOURCES:
  1. Annotated Bibliography (2015-current): https://www.fluoridelawsuit.com/science
  2. GreenMed Database (current): https://greenmedinfo.com/disease/fluoride-toxicity
  3. IAOMT Fluoride Fact Page: https://iaomt.org/resources/fluoride-facts/
  4. Environmental Considerations in 2023 Petition to MWRA: https://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/MWRAletter_2023.03.pdf
  5. Judgment Against the EPA (under appeal)
    “The hazard identification step… is satisfied… the Court finds that fluoridation of water at 0.7 milligrams per liter… poses an unreasonable risk of reduced IQ in children… The qualitative evidence is superior… The size of the affected population is vast.”  – Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law. Case No. 17-CV-02162-EMC, Food and Water Watch et al. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency et al. Judge Edward M. Chen. September 24, 2024

Support Letter

Find your Legislators here: https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator

You can use this template as a starting point. At a minimum, personalize the first few sentences. It’s also a good idea to write your own subject line. Multiple emails with the same subject line are more likely to be dismissed as “spam” by legislators.

Support bills to end water fluoridation

Dear [Representative/Senator Last Name],

I am writing as your constituent to urge you to support and co-sponsor the fluoridation reform bills currently before the Joint Committee on Public Health:

 

    • S.1517 / H.2548 – An Act banning artificial fluoridation schemes

    • S.1518 / H.2549 – An Act relative to fluoride in water warnings

    • S.1630 / H.2449 – An Act providing municipalities to opt out of fluoridation treatments

These bills represent a necessary and reasonable response to growing public concerns about mass fluoridation programs and the need to return decision-making authority to local communities.

As of May 2025, Utah and Florida have banned community water fluoridation, and nearly 200 other U.S. communities have either ended or are considering ending the practice. Quebec and British Columbia are now over 99% unfluoridated. Massachusetts, however, remains trapped under an outdated and rigid fluoridation law—Chapter 111, Section 8C—that functions as a de facto mandate. Once fluoridation begins in a community, it cannot legally end without an order from the MA Department of Public Health or a legislative act exempting the community from state law that allows for a local ordinance.

This is not how local government should work. Towns must be empowered to make their own decisions about public health interventions, especially when science increasingly shows that fluoride exposure affects people differently based on genetics, dose, age, and health status. Fluoride crosses the blood-brain and placental barriers, accumulates in bones, and affects thyroid and kidney function. The EPA is now under court order after a federal judge found that fluoridation poses “an unreasonable risk” of reduced IQ in children (Case No. 17-CV-02162-EMC, Sept. 2024). The EPA is appealing.

The solution is not to keep defending this one-size-fits-all policy but to protect the vulnerable members of our communities from immoral and uncontrollable dosing through drinking water, or at the very least, clarify and streamline a process for local democratic control and transparency. These bills do just that. They are simple, non-partisan, and urgently needed.

I respectfully urge you to support and help pass these bills, and to stand with the growing number of Americans calling for common-sense fluoridation reform.

Thank you.

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