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Committee backs 5-year pilot letting certain special districts leave State Insurance Fund
Summary
An Idaho House committee voted to send House Bill 160 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation, approving a five-year pilot that would allow some small special districts to seek private workers' compensation coverage instead of participating in the State Insurance Fund.
An Idaho House committee voted to send House Bill 160 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation after hearing from the bill’s sponsor about a five-year pilot allowing certain small special districts to obtain workers' compensation coverage outside the State Insurance Fund.
Representative Josh Tanner, a state representative from District 14, told the committee the State Insurance Fund serves both private and public employers and was created decades ago to protect cities, counties and special districts from insurer failures. "Back in the day, there was a lot of shady businesses that had come around," Tanner said, arguing…
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