2017 Senate Bill 466

Assert “right” to drinking water

Introduced in the Senate

June 15, 2017

Introduced by Sen. Coleman Young (D-1)

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 an obligation on others to pay the water bills of a person who does not pay for the service.

Referred to the Committee on Government Operations