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Committee advances bill to align volunteer firefighter participation in state health pool with federal marketplace rules
Summary
House Bill 136 would correct language that prevented volunteer firefighters from fully participating in the state health insurance pool after an interaction with Affordable Care Act language. The committee amended the bill to make it effective immediately and approved it unanimously to pass out of committee.
The committee advanced House Bill 136 to address an unintended consequence from earlier legislation that limited volunteer firefighters’ access to the state health insurance pool because of conflicting Affordable Care Act language.
Jim Walmsley, fire chief of the Rock Springs Fire Department and representative of the Wyoming Fire Chiefs Association, told the committee last session’s law had a drafting mismatch with federal marketplace rules that thwarted the intent to permit volunteer…
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