2019 Senate Bill 49

Assert “right” to drinking water

Introduced in the Senate

Jan. 23, 2019

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 the government to provide water.

Referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality