Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF1364

E Relating to child support; expanding the medical support bonus incentives
program to all county agency child support enforcement cases and the definition
of coverage to medical assistance (MA) and the MinnesotaCare program,
eliminating the dependent health insurance coverage identification requirement;
modifying and recodifying certain medical support provisions; specifying certain
requirements for qualified medical child support orders; providing for court
determination of appropriate health care coverage and for the calculation and
allocation of support costs, requiring enrollment in the MinnesotaCare program
of children or parents ordered to apply for public health care coverage without
regard to income limit eligibility, requiring certain enrollees to pay the
maximum premium; providing for notice to the employer of the party ordered to
carry health care coverage for the child of the coverage requirements by the
public authority responsible for child support enforcement or by the court, for
the effect of the order and for contests to enrollment of a child in a health
plan; specifying certain requirements of employers or unions relating to child
enrollment, imposing liability for failure to comply; regulating disenrollment,
entitling the child to elect continued coverage and providing for certain
coverage options; requiring coverage of the custodial parent under certain
conditions; providing for health plan reimbursements; requiring health plans to
send copies of correspondence to both parents; requiring parental, employer and
health plan disclosure of certain information for public authority provision of
support enforcement services; providing for enforcement; specifying certain
requirements for the collection of unreimbursed and uninsured medical expenses
and medical support arrears; defining and redefining certain terms for child
support or maintenance purposes and modifying and recodifying certain child
support provisions; providing for court issuance of child support orders;
requiring documentation of earnings and income and providing for the submission
of income tax returns, requiring notice to the public authority of certain
information in public assistance cases, requiring the court to set support
according to the guidelines under notice failure conditions; defining income and
specifying certain exclusions; providing for the determination of imputed income
in certain cases, specifying certain factors for consideration by the court in
determining voluntary unemployment or underemployment; providing for presumptive
child support guidelines; providing an insurance benefit offset in certain
cases; requiring the commissioner of human services to create a worksheet for
calculation of child support and providing for calculation, providing for a
presumptive minimum and for court determination of basic, child care and medical
support; providing for orders to perform community service under certain
conditions; specifying certain factors to be considered by the court in
deviating from the guidelines, restricting downward deviations in public
assistance cases; specifying certain written findings requirements of the court;
providing for the assignment of payments to public authorities, authorizing
certain fees; providing a schedule of basic support, requiring periodic review
by the department of human services; including custodial parents in the
definition of obligor for payment agreement and income withholding purposes;
conforming certain order modification provisions to the new requirements;
requiring cost of living adjustments in medical support; specifying certain
renumbering, cross reference correction and headnote change instructions to the
revisor of statutes; repealing certain existing provisions providing for medical
support and the child support guidelines (mk, ja)