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Committee backs bill to let domestic-abuse survivors challenge coerced debt; moves to appropriations
Summary
The House Finance Committee voted 11–2 to send House Bill 11 94 to the Appropriations Committee with a favorable recommendation. Sponsors and survivor-advocates say the bill creates a civil remedy to stop collection on debt a court finds was coerced as economic abuse.
Sponsors told the committee House Bill 11 94 would address coerced debt — debt imposed on people through coercion, fraud, identity theft, or other forms of economic abuse — and create a civil process to pause or stop collection when survivors provide credible documentation.
Representative Armacost, sponsor of HB 11 94, described coerced debt as a form of economic abuse that traps victims and can prevent survivors from obtaining housing, employment, or financial independence. The bill would allow a survivor to submit a statement and supporting documentation to a creditor or debt collector; creditors would be required to stop collection while the…
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