Legislators to study Medicaid expansion in 2021 interim

Wyoming lawmakers will give Medicaid expansion a hard look in the 2021 interim after two attempts to pass the measure failed in the Wyoming Senate in the recent session.

The Legislature’s Management Council approved expansion as an interim topic Friday by a 7-4 vote. The Joint Revenue Committee will now take it up.

Long a hot-button topic in Wyoming politics, Medicaid expansion saw renewed interest this session after the federal government passed legislation increasing the federal match.

The Management Council also approved studies on charter schools, a corporate income tax, election law, and education funding as it finalized its list of topics to be examined in the months between now and the 2022 session. Some controversial topics raised in the 2021 session, like the legalization of marijuana, were not raised as potential subjects for the interim session while others, like the potential transfer of federal lands to the state, were significantly pared down.

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