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Committee introduces RS 32,037 to allow cities to join state health insurance pool, counties excluded
Summary
Representative Rick Cheatham sought to let cities opt into the state employee health insurance pool; lawmakers debated adding counties but a substitute motion to include them failed and the original request was introduced.
Representative Rick Cheatham, R‑District 28 (Power, Franklin and parts of Bannock County), asked the House State Affairs Committee to introduce RS 32,037, a change to the statute governing the state employee insurance pool that would allow cities to join the state plan on a voluntary, city‑funded basis.
Cheatham said the idea is to spread risk across a much larger pool and potentially reduce premium growth for municipalities.…
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