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Committee advances bill allowing volunteer first responders to opt into state health plan
Summary
The House Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources Committee voted unanimously to advance House Bill 136, a technical update allowing volunteer firefighters, search-and-rescue personnel and volunteer EMTs additional administrative flexibility to opt into the state group health insurance program.
House lawmakers advanced House Bill 136 on a roll-call vote after brief debate and several public witnesses representing fire chiefs and volunteer organizations.
Representative Steve Harshman, sponsor of the bill, told the Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources Committee the measure is a “little revisers bill” to fix implementation details from a law enacted last year that let volunteer firefighters, search-and-rescue personnel and volunteer EMTs opt into state health insurance. “There was some gray area where that would have excluded you from opting into this program,” Harshman said, and the bill changes paperwork timing and related eligibility…
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