SB2

To Repeal the Statewide Fluoridation Program; and to Remove the Mandate for Water Systems to Maintain a Fluoride Content.

C. Penzo · 2025 Regular Session · Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment.

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TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND TO REMOVE THE MANDATE FOR WATER SYSTEMS TO MAINTAIN A FLUORIDE CONTENT.

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30 mentions · 30 meetings · 7 named speakers

2025 Girls State House Meeting

May 29, 2025 · Girls State

Matched: “…ation on the bills that were passed in the Senate. How, uh, Senate Bill 2 was passed, Senate Bill 3, Senate Bill 4, set up book 5, se…”

information on the bills that were passed in senate how uh senate bill 2 was passed senate bill 3 senate bill 4 senate bill 5 senate bill 6 and senate bill 8 was passed but on senate bill 3 the emergency clause did fail we will now go back ...

Chair · 1:43 in the video

...ss. We will now go on to our next order of business, which is, we are going to move to the Senate agenda. So everyone please flip their papers to the Senate bills. Our first bill will be Senate Bill No. 2. Madam Clerk, please read the bill.

Chair · 13:33 in the video

The question before the House is a passage of Senate Bill No. 2. Prepare the machine, Madam Clerk. You are voting for the bill and the emergency clause, representatives. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Madam Clerk.

Chair · 17:41 in the video

Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee- House

April 15, 2025 · Public Health, Welfare & Labor Committee (House) · on the agenda

Matched: “SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND…”

with that we'll move on to senate bill two Clint Penzo, Senate District 31. SB2 is to remove the fluoride mandate in Arkansas. Currently, we have a mandate that water districts have to put fluoride into the water system.

Senator Clint Penzo · 1:21:56 in the video

Agenda items (1)

SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND TO REMOVE THE MANDATE FOR WATER SYSTEMS TO MAINTAIN A FLUORIDE CONTENT.

Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee - Senate

April 14, 2025 · Public Health Welfare & Labor Committee (Senate & House)

Matched: “…WAIVER FOR THE AGING AND ELDERLY POPULATION IN THIS STATE. SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND…”

Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee- House

April 10, 2025 · Public Health, Welfare & Labor Committee (House) · on the agenda

Matched: “…-TIME EMPLOYMENT AS A PHYSICIAN FROM A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER. SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND…”

Agenda items (1)

SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND TO REMOVE THE MANDATE FOR WATER SYSTEMS TO MAINTAIN A FLUORIDE CONTENT.

Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee - Senate

April 9, 2025 · Public Health Welfare & Labor Committee (Senate & House)

Matched: “…WAIVER FOR THE AGING AND ELDERLY POPULATION IN THIS STATE. SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND…”

Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee - Senate

April 9, 2025 · Public Health Welfare & Labor Committee (Senate & House)

Matched: “…WAIVER FOR THE AGING AND ELDERLY POPULATION IN THIS STATE. SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND…”

Senate Convenes

April 8, 2025 · on the agenda

Matched: “SB2 - Motion to move SB2 to the bottom of Today's Calendar”

Thank you, Madam President. I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules and move SB2 to the end of the Senate calendar today. Fluoride. I

Senator Clint Penzo · 40:28 in the video

There's a motion to suspend the rules to add Senate Bill 2 to the bottom of today's Senate calendar.

Chair · 40:49 in the video

you will add 478. Senator Stubblefield passed over it while he was in the Chair, but we'll add it at the bottom of the pink sheet, 478 stubble fields. So starting at the top of the pink sheet SB 2, Senator Penzo.

Senator Bart Hester · 4:42:00 in the video

the pink sheet, SB 2, Senator Penzo. Senate Bill 2 by Senator Penzo to repeal the statewide fluoridation program

Chair · 4:42:13 in the video

recognize for question. Thank you, Mr. President. Senator Pinza, I just, if you could help me with Senate Bill 2, and I know we

Chair (Senator Tyler Dees) · 4:43:04 in the video

...so will you help with that? Yeah, so, and I appreciate a little bit of latitude on this one. But so SB2 is the cleanest version of the bill. It just repeals the mandate, simple. That one will go to Public Health Committee on the House side.

Senator Clint Penzo · 4:43:22 in the video

Ultimately, I would like SB2 to be ran in public health and have that determination made by our House Public Health Committee. The other two I guess I would look at as backups to go through the state agencies. They're not optimal, but if th...

Senator Clint Penzo · 4:44:17 in the video

... was just if on any of these, just help me understand the ability to vote Or if SB2 passes here today, how it actually goes to implementation when communities share water. So if a community were to want this, but then the other community do...

Senator Tyler Dees · 4:44:49 in the video

recognize? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Senator, so if we passed, if SB2 passes into law, then that removes the statewide mandate,

Senator Jim Dotson · 5:02:30 in the video

The mandate would be gone. If SB2 passes, my co-sponsors on the House side will

Senator Clint Penzo · 5:02:51 in the video

Agenda items (2)

Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee - Senate

April 7, 2025 · Public Health Welfare & Labor Committee (Senate & House)

Matched: “…WAIVER FOR THE AGING AND ELDERLY POPULATION IN THIS STATE. SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND…”

Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee - Senate

April 7, 2025 · Public Health Welfare & Labor Committee (Senate & House) · on the agenda

Matched: “SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND…”

Agenda items (1)

SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND TO REMOVE THE MANDATE FOR WATER SYSTEMS TO MAINTAIN A FLUORIDE CONTENT.

Senate Convenes

April 3, 2025 · on the agenda

Matched: “SB2 - Motion to extract SB2 from Senate Public Health Committee”

I'd like to make a motion to extract SB2 from Public

Senator Clint Penzo · 1:53:32 in the video

Any questions for Senator Penzo on the motion to extract Senate Bill 2? This is a debatable motion.

Chair · 1:53:49 in the video

I hope you'll appreciate a no vote in extraction of Senate Bill 2 from

Senator Missy Irvin · 1:55:53 in the video

on Any other member wish to speak for, against, or on the motion to extract SB 2?

Chair · 1:56:55 in the video

... but like i said before there's one good bill there's one clean bill and that's sb2 that was the second bill of the session that was filed it's it's the it's the cleanest it just repeals the the mandate the fluoride mandate and I think that...

Senator Clint Penzo · 2:03:12 in the video

...k the board. Seeing no other senator. Please cast up the ballot by a vote of 19, yay, 12, nay, and 2 present. The motion to extract Senate Bill 2 passes or carries. We are passing over Senate Bill 120. Next, we will take up Senate Bill 157.

Chair · 2:05:33 in the video

Agenda items (1)

SB2 - Motion to extract SB2 from Senate Public Health Committee

Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee - Senate

April 2, 2025 · Public Health Welfare & Labor Committee (Senate & House) · on the agenda

Matched: “SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND…”

Agenda items (1)

SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND TO REMOVE THE MANDATE FOR WATER SYSTEMS TO MAINTAIN A FLUORIDE CONTENT.

Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee - Senate

April 2, 2025 · Public Health Welfare & Labor Committee (Senate & House) · on the agenda

Matched: “SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND…”

Agenda items (1)

SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND TO REMOVE THE MANDATE FOR WATER SYSTEMS TO MAINTAIN A FLUORIDE CONTENT.

Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee - Senate

April 1, 2025 · Public Health Welfare & Labor Committee (Senate & House) · on the agenda

Matched: “SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND…”

Agenda items (1)

SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND TO REMOVE THE MANDATE FOR WATER SYSTEMS TO MAINTAIN A FLUORIDE CONTENT.

Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee - Senate

March 19, 2025 · Public Health Welfare & Labor Committee (Senate & House)

Matched: “…VISE THE ARKANSAS FIRE TRAINING ACADEMY ON CERTAIN MATTERS. SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND…”

go home? Well, I mean, yeah, pretty much I want to just do the ones that people are here for. So no SB2, no SB95.

Senator Clint Penzo · 23:39 in the video

Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee - Senate

March 19, 2025 · Public Health Welfare & Labor Committee (Senate & House)

Matched: “…VISE THE ARKANSAS FIRE TRAINING ACADEMY ON CERTAIN MATTERS. SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND…”

Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee - Senate

March 17, 2025 · Public Health Welfare & Labor Committee (Senate & House)

Matched: “…A KARST TOPOGRAPHY. DEFERRED BILLS Number Sponsor Subtitle SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND…”

Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee - Senate

March 12, 2025 · Public Health Welfare & Labor Committee (Senate & House)

Matched: “…IOLOGIST ASSISTANTS. DEFERRED BILLS Number Sponsor Subtitle SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND…”

Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee - Senate

March 5, 2025 · Public Health Welfare & Labor Committee (Senate & House)

Matched: “…NITY HEALTH WORKERS. DEFERRED BILLS Number Sponsor Subtitle SB2 C. Penzo TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND…”

Senate Convenes

March 5, 2025

Matched: “…number 2, calendar Committee on Revenue and Tax who was for Senate Bill 2, 19 of Cen dismay recommend new past calendar. Senate resol…”

...ealth to for House Bill 1245 by representative highly recommended new pass this amended number 2, calendar Committee on Revenue and Tax who was for Senate Bill 2, 19 of Cen dismay recommend new past calendar. Senate resolution 35 by Senator

Chair · 32:01 in the video