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Your ECONOMIST in Concord

Today's high inflation makes my degree in Economics from MIT much more exciting than usual. My training helps me see how wasteful government spending slows growth and increases costs. Your Republican legislature delivered a budget which is helping New Hampshire perform better than other states, and I will work to promote policies that will make New Hampshire continue to do better than other states.

The biggest economic challenges are coming from Washington DC, but sound leadership in New Hampshire can help us lead the way out of the coming recession.

 

Representative Erica Layon has spent decades focused on studying risk both in school and in the real world. As a MIT Economist, she worked on Wall Street first as an options market maker who underwent 100 hours of intensive poker instruction to thrive in the trading floor pits, culminating her career as a Medical Device Analyst who worked with company executives and top doctors to bring new ideas to actual patient care.

As an economist, Erica understands how decisions to block energy suppliers leads to doubling electric bills and how smart fiscal policy drives New Hampshire's best-in-New-England unemployment rates. She will continue to reduce unnecessary red-tape that strangles economic growth and drives the inflation that is causing difficult kitchen table decisions across the Granite State.

As Vice Chairman of the Health Human Services and Elderly Affairs committee in 2022, Erica was a strong voice to the people of Derry. In final negotiations between the House and Senate she not only sat at the table, she chaired two committees that delivered strong policy around medical privacy and the right to use approved medicines for unapproved uses. Medicines are used off-label more than they are for the disease they are approved to treat, and now New Hampshire has clear guidelines on how and when informed consent is needed.

Committee assignments for the current term will be announced soon.

Erics Layon016-Ready 8x10

 

2021

  • Member House Education Committee
  • I wrote a bill to fix the voter checklists and to make better use of existing information to remove voters who no longer live in town  which was is now law.

2022

  • Vice Chairman, Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee
  • Member, NH Council on Suicide Prevention
  • Chairman, Committee of Conference for HB1466 and HB1487. This is where the House and Senate resolve differences on bill language.
  • I wrote a bill to streamline homeschool laws which is now the law.
  • I was also deeply involved in crafting final language on bills to
    • affirm the right of patients to have visitors (link)
    • provide a framework for off-label prescriptions, providing protections for patients and their doctors who want to try a treatment with informed consent (link)

2023

  • Chairman, Derry Joint Legislative Committee

National Recognition

  • NCSL (National Conference of State Legislatures) Rural Health Regional Roundtable, NH Member
  • NCSL Health Innovations Task Force, NH Member
  • ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) Task Force on Education & Workforce Development
  • ALEC Task Force on Health & Human Services