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Middle Tennessee subcommittee seeks to simplify EIP and VEIP rules to boost firefighter participation
Summary
A Middle Tennessee EIP/VEIP subcommittee discussed proposed rule changes intended to simplify participation for volunteer and career firefighters. Attendance was low and no rule changes were voted on; the group said the package is intended to be small to avoid a multi-year legislative delay and could take effect as early as next year.
A Commerce & Insurance subcommittee meeting for Middle Tennessee on the Emergency Incentive Program (EIP) and Volunteer Emergency Incentive Program (VEIP) reviewed proposed rule changes intended to make participation easier for volunteer and career firefighters.
The subcommittee chair and staff recapped prior rural-subcommittee work and stakeholder feedback, saying the current rules—adapted from 2021 career-side rules—had made participation more complicated for many firefighters. “When we first made these rules back in ’twenty 1, we basically took the career side rules … and regurgitated them to kind of make it fit,” the staff member said. The staff member added, “it’s gonna be a pretty radical…
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