2021 Senate Bill 342

Assert “right” to drinking water

Introduced in the Senate

March 25, 2021

Introduced by Sen. Rosemary Bayer (D-12)

To assert in statute that each person has a “right” to “safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water” for cleaning, cooking and drinking, subject to specified limits on the duty this implies for taxpayers and government to provide water to households.

Referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality