2021 Senate Bill 343

Restrict shutting off some delinquent water service customers

Introduced in the Senate

March 25, 2021

Introduced by Sen. Stephanie Chang (D-1)

To impose additional restrictions, disclosure requirements, installment plan mandates, and a duty to facilitate low income households getting welfare benefits, before a municipal water service can shut off service to someone who hasn’t paid their bills. A version of this bill was enacted as a temporary coronavirus epidemic response in 2020, and this bill would make the provisions permanent.

Referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality