Friday, June 1st, 2007 — The leaders of a special Rhode Island House commission studying the effects of natural disasters on property insurance costs have introduced legislation they say is aimed at protecting coastal homeowners from "unreasonable" rate hikes to insure their homes for hurricane damage or from having their policies canceled because of their location near a coast. The two bills are the first bills to come out of the work of the commission, which began meeting last summer to address post-Katrina insurance issues affecting homes near the state’s coast.