HB1220 went through committee unanimously this week and is onto the house floor! This is a bill which I received from a constituent who noticed that his home insurance went up more than he thought. Under current regulations, your personal property is valued at 50% of the value of your home. This means that if your house, which was worth $200k a few years ago, and is now worth $400k, even if you did not change anything inside your home, you would be forced to insure your property at $200k. The value of your home went up, but the value of your couch did not. This bill allows you to request a lowering of that value to 25% of the home's value. I am glad that democrats see the damage that inflation caused and are willing to do small things to fix it.
I also had a bill to ban discriminatory abortions on the basis of race and sex. Abortion is not a valid form of birth control, and I am tired of it being marketed as healthcare, it is not. I made that point in committee, but to no avail. A baby girl is just as valuable as a baby boy and vice versa. I hope that the law will recognize this in the future.
I had a bill to put a statute of limitations on the initiation of debt collection at 7 years. This bill got continued to 2025 because the committee was not convinced that 7 years was the right number. I will be bringing back HB1220 next year and will hopefully pass.
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