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Committee advances bill to create state landslide and sinkhole insurance fund with $10 million seed; passes 25–1
Summary
House Bill 589, sponsored by Rep. Kinkade, would create a state-run landslide and sinkhole insurance program modeled on the mine-subsidence fund; the committee advanced the bill after extensive discussion and a recorded 25–1 vote in committee.
Representative Kinkade, sponsor of House Bill 589, described the bill as a proposal to create a state-run insurance program for damage from landslides and sinkholes, modeled on Pennsylvania's existing mine-subsidence insurance program. "There was an entire house that had collapsed off the side of a hill," Kinkade said, recounting constituents' damage and arguing there is no commercial market to address the losses.
Kinkade said the bill would start with a $150,000 policy cap and a proposed $10 million transfer from the General Fund to seed the program. She…
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