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Protect Our TEETH Act

To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to seek to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to carry out a rapid response evidence review of proposed rules relating to fluoride, and for other purposes.

Introduced Jul 21, 2025

Latest action (Jul 21, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Referred to
Energy and Commerce Committee
Policy area
Environmental Protection

Summary
  • Requires the EPA to seek an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to conduct a rapid response evidence review of any proposed rule establishing drinking water standards for fluoride.
  • Specifies that the evidence review must be completed within 90 to 180 days from the date of agreement.
  • Requires the EPA to provide the National Academies with all data and information used to justify the proposed fluoride rule and to consider the results of the review.
  • Requires the EPA to publish the complete final report of the National Academies evidence review in the Federal Register as part of the proposed fluoride rule.

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Sponsor (1)
12 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Jul 21, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. · house
  2. Jul 21, 2025 Introduced in House

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Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jul 21, 2025

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Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

July 21, 2025

Mr. Cleaver (for himself, Mr. Frost, Mr. Fields, Mr. Thanedar, Mr. Bell, Mr. Gottheimer, Mr. Davis of North Carolina, Mrs. Sykes, and Ms. Norton) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to seek to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to carry out a rapid response evidence review of proposed rules relating to fluoride, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Protect Our Treatment for Enamel, Erosion, and Tooth Health Act” or the “Protect Our TEETH Act”.

SEC. 2. FLUORIDE IN DRINKING WATER.

Section 1412(b)(12) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g- 1(b)(12)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(C) Fluoride.—

“(i) National academies rapid response evidence review.—Prior to publishing in the Federal Register a proposed rule to establish the maximum contaminant level goal for fluoride, or, in the national primary drinking water regulation for fluoride, specify the maximum contaminant level for fluoride, the Administrator shall—

“(I) seek to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to carry out a rapid response evidence review of such proposed rule, which agreement shall specify a timeline of no fewer than 90 days and no more than 180 days for carrying out such rapid response evidence review;

“(II) provide the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine with all data and other information being used to justify such proposed rule; and

“(III) consider the results of any such rapid response evidence review with respect to such proposed rule.

“(ii) Publication.—The Administrator shall publish in the Federal Register, as a part of any proposed rule under this subparagraph, the entirety of the final report of any rapid response evidence review relating to such proposed rule.

“(iii) Use of existing funds.—The Administrator may use funds otherwise available to the Administrator to carry out this subparagraph.”. <all>

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