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SF 1271 Senate Long Description

3E Relating to family law; clarifying and modifying child support laws; allowing public authorities to remove or resume medical support offsets and to suspend or resume interest charging on child support judgments under certain conditions; reassigning certain child support duties from the commissioner of human services to the state court administrator and permitting certain affidavits for income information; clarifying child support application; defining parent employed on a less than full time basis; permitting change in availability of appropriate health care coverage or substantial increase or decrease in health care coverage costs for modification of child support orders and modifying certain circumstances for order changes; modifying the division of the child care support costs to include public agency payments; clarifying human services department care payment suspension and resumption effective dates, allowing continuation challenges; modifying the definitions of health care coverage and health plan, clarifying dental care under health care coverage, allowing extended family members to carry children on health care policies; clarifying medical support order requirements and specifying unreimbursed or uninsured medical expense allocation requirements; modifying factors for considering medical support determination decisions; clarifying and modifying court orders of dependent health care coverage, authorizing dental coverage court determination; counting the medical support amount allocation as child support not subject to cost of living adjustment; allowing spousal maintenance reduction under certain conditions; making clarifying changes; allowing an offset for spousal maintenance obligations; specifying public authority duties with regard to offsets; requiring consideration of the residence of the child in a foreign county upon deviation from the presumptive child support amount; authorizing interest suspension under certain conditions; allowing child support judgments to be renewed for an additional time period by service of notice upon the debtor; specifying certain application of law requirements
(Ch. 118, 2007)