SB 450
, authored by Senator Troy Carter, is scheduled to be heard
TODAY
in Senate Committee on Judiciary A at 3:00 p.m.
This bill would protect federal stimulus checks from being seized by debt collectors. Below is an excerpt from the
Hope Policy Institute's blog post
on why this is an important issue.
"Over 80 million federal CARES Act stimulus payments have been distributed in the past two weeks. Just under half are still left to be sent nationally, with some of the most financially vulnerable people set to begin receiving their payments this week.[1]
With the majority of the stimulus payments expected to go towards paying bills and other essential needs, [2] state officials must quickly enact protections to prohibit debt collectors from garnishing checks before people can put the money toward rent, or utilities, prescriptions or food.
"
The current law on the seizure of property includes general exemptions from seizure under any writ, mandate, or process for specified income or property by a debtor. The proposed law retains the current exemptions and adds federal COVID-19 relief payments received by the debtor.
Contact Senate Committee on Judiciary A Members NOW and ask them to support SB 450.
Sen. Barrow Peacock, Chairman
peacockb@legis.la.gov
(318) 741-7180
Sen. Jimmy Harris, Vice-Chairman
harrisj@legis.la.gov
(504) 243-1960
Sen. Heather Cloud
sen28@legis.la.gov
(337) 461-2595
Sen. Cleo Fields
cfields@legis.la.gov
(225) 342-9514
Sen. Jay Luneau
luneauj@legis.la.gov
(318) 484-2288
Sen. Patrick McMath
sen11@legis.la.gov
(985) 900-6278
Sen. Robert Mills
sen36@legis.la.gov
(318) 371-5200
