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Senate delays vote on rural health transformation bill after questions about perpetuity fund
Summary
Senators pressed sponsors on how House Bill 122 would use a perpetuity fund for rural health programs, asking about flexibility, federal approvals and projected funding levels; the sponsor successfully asked to lay the bill back one day for follow-up information.
Senators on the Wyoming Senate floor pressed sponsors of House Bill 122 on details of a proposed rural health transformation program, then agreed to delay a final vote to allow the executive branch to provide clarifications.
The bill would create a mix of time-limited and perpetual funding streams meant to support services such as workforce education, incentives for critical access hospitals and centralized ambulance-claims billing. Department staff and the bill sponsor told senators the fractions in the bill are intended as targets rather than rigid…
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