Recognizing access to water, sanitation, electricity, heating, cooling, broadband communications, and public transportation as basic human rights and public services that must be accessible, safe, justly sourced and sustainable, acceptable, sufficient, affordable, climate resilient, and reliable for every person.

This is a non-binding resolution expressing the House's sense that access to water, sanitation, electricity, heating, cooling, broadband, and public transportation are basic human rights. The resolution calls for public control of utilities, a ban on water privatization, elimination of punitive collection practices like service shutoffs, affordable rates based on ability to pay, and transition to clean renewable energy. It does not enact any binding legislation or create enforceable requirements.

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