(NH) - Legislative madness makes its return
The House passed legislation likely to welcome payday lenders back into the state - just a couple years after they were chased away. The bill would allow "installment loans" with interest rates as high as 403 percent. Similarly, they pushed through legislation allowing extraordinarily high interest rates on car title loans - overriding Lynch's 2011 veto.
• Lawmakers endorsed a bill that would free insurers from having to cover home births and the services of midwives - despite compelling arguments that home births are cheaper than those in hospitals. This, in the name of reigning in the cost of insurance.
• Lawmakers debated whether to strip state licensing requirements from hairdressers, massage therapists and a dozen other professions. They rejected the bill - but the issue will return in an alternative form later this year.
• Lawmakers overrode Lynch's veto of a bill giving parents the option to exempt their children from any school material they find objectionable.
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