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SF 1364 Senate Long Description

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)