When it comes to bill drafting, I’m very conservative.

If another state has adopted a law on the same topic, use it.

If that statute proves inadequate, you’ll have evidence to improve what we enacted.

When you’re proposing changes to existing law, tinker with that language instead of replacing it.

You don’t need to reenact the wheel.

Last year, Ken Birnbaum, a former neighborhood president in my district and an insurance agent, told me about a client who put on his application that he would be traveling to Israel to visit his son.

He was told there would be an exclusion on his life insurance policy for travel to Gaza and the West Bank, including the Old City of Jerusalem.

I introduced House Bill 803, which is modeled on a Colorado law. At today’s hearing, Ken and I testified in support of the bill, as did the lobbyists for the life insurance industry.

It should be smooth sailing from here.

But I won’t take that for granted.