Bill Text: MI SB0049 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Public utilities: water utilities; human right to water act; create. Creates new act.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-23 - Referred To Committee On Environmental Quality [SB0049 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-SB0049-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 49
January 23, 2019, Introduced by Senators BAYER, POLEHANKI, MOSS, WOJNO, CHANG, BRINKS, MCMORROW, MCCANN, SANTANA, IRWIN, ANANICH, HOLLIER, GEISS and ALEXANDER and referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality.
A bill to require all state departments and agencies to
establish certain water affordability criteria; and to prescribe
the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental
officers and entities.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "human
right to water act".
Sec. 2. (1) Each individual has the right to safe, clean,
affordable, and accessible water for human consumption, cooking,
and sanitary purposes.
(2) All state departments and agencies shall employ all
reasonable means to implement this section. All state departments
and agencies shall revise, adopt, or establish policies,
regulations, and grant criteria to further this section by
establishing water affordability criteria as appropriate, to the
extent that those actions do not affect eligibility for federal
funds.
(3) This section does not expand any obligation of this state
to provide water or to require the expenditure of additional
resources to develop water infrastructure beyond the obligations
that may exist under subsection (2).
(4) This section applies to water supplies for individuals and
not for new development in this state.
(5) The implementation of this section does not infringe on
the rights or responsibilities of any public water system in this
state.
