2015 House Bill 5101

Assert “right” to drinking water

Introduced in the House

Dec. 1, 2015

Introduced by Rep. Julie Plawecki (D-11)

To assert in statute that each person has a “right” to “safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water” for cleaning, cooking and drinking. Presumably this would impose a duty on others to pay the water bills of a person can’t or won’t pay for the service.

Referred to the Committee on Local Government and Municipal Finance