Year: 2016
Resolution Number: 58
Action Taken: Approved
Status:
Author(s): Laura Carravallah, MD
Sponsor: Laura Carravallah, MD
On behalf of: Genesee County Delegation
Committee: D (Public Health)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS lobby for a state law that requires all municipal water test results performed by municipal, city, county, district, or state agencies to be posted on a publicly available website within seven business days of their receipt; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS lobby for a state law that requires all reportable disease reports performed by city, county, district, or state agencies to be posted on a publicly available website within seven business days of their receipt; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS lobby for a state law that requires reports of sewage overflows to be posted on a publicly available website within four hours of the receipt of such reports; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS supports the creation and availability of a real-time alert system for all water test results, which exceed federal, state, or local standards within a person’s designated zip code(s), to which the public could subscribe; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS supports the creation and implementation of a process in which all collected test results related to the quality of water that are excluded from final data analysis are annotated and explained; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) ask our AMA to lobby at the federal level for legislation, regulations, and/or policies that would do the following:1. Require all municipal water test results performed by municipal, city, county, district or state agencies to be posted on a publicly available website within seven business days of their receipt.2. Require all communicable disease reports performed by city, county, district or state agencies to be posted on a publicly available website within seven business days of their receipt.3. Require reports of sewage overflows to be posted on a publicly available website within four hours of the receipt of such reports.4. Create and make available a real-time alert system for all water test results, which exceed federal, state, or local standards within a person’s designated zip code(s), to which the public could subscribe.5. Create and make available a process in which all collected test results related to the quality of water that are excluded from final data analysis are annotated and explained.
RESOLVED: That MSMS lobby for a state law that requires all municipal water test results performed by municipal, city, county, district, or state agencies to be posted on a publicly available website within seven business days of their receipt; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS lobby for a state law that requires all reportable disease reports performed by city, county, district, or state agencies to be posted on a publicly available website within seven business days of their receipt; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS lobby for a state law that requires reports of sewage overflows to be posted on a publicly available website within four hours of the receipt of such reports; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS supports the creation and availability of a real-time alert system for all water test results, which exceed federal, state, or local standards within a person’s designated zip code(s), to which the public could subscribe; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS supports the creation and implementation of a process in which all collected test results related to the quality of water that are excluded from final data analysis are annotated and explained; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) ask our AMA to lobby at the federal level for legislation, regulations, and/or policies that would do the following:1. Require all municipal water test results performed by municipal, city, county, district or state agencies to be posted on a publicly available website within seven business days of their receipt.2. Require all communicable disease reports performed by city, county, district or state agencies to be posted on a publicly available website within seven business days of their receipt.3. Require reports of sewage overflows to be posted on a publicly available website within four hours of the receipt of such reports.4. Create and make available a real-time alert system for all water test results, which exceed federal, state, or local standards within a person’s designated zip code(s), to which the public could subscribe.5. Create and make available a process in which all collected test results related to the quality of water that are excluded from final data analysis are annotated and explained.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Timely and Transparent Data Sharing for Drinking Water Testing
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