As used in the Mandatory Medical Support Act:

A. "cash medical support" means an amount ordered to be paid toward the cost of health insurance provided by a public entity or by another parent through employment or otherwise, or for other medical costs not covered by insurance;

B. "court" means any district court ordering support by a medical support obligor;

C. "department" means the human services department;

D. "employer" means an individual, organization, agency, business or corporation hiring a medical support obligor for pay;

E. "health insurance coverage" means those coverages generally associated with a medical plan of benefits, which may include dental insurance, but not including medicaid coverage authorized by Title 19 of the Social Security Act and administered by the department;

F. "insurer" means an employment-related or other group health care insurance plan, a health maintenance organization, a nonprofit health care plan or other type of health care insurance plan under which medical or dental services are provided, regardless of service delivery mechanism;

G. "medical support obligee" means a person to whom a duty of medical support is owed or a person, including the department, who has commenced a proceeding for enforcement of a duty to provide health support for each minor child or for registration of a support order that includes a provision for such support for each minor child;

H. "medical support obligor" means a person owing a duty to provide health support or against whom a proceeding for the enforcement of such a duty of support is commenced or for registration of a support order that includes provisions for such support for each minor child;

I. "minor child" means a child younger than eighteen years of age who has not been emancipated; and

J. "national medical support notice" means a notice to an employer that an employee's child must be covered by the employment-related group health and dental care insurance plan pursuant to a court order.

History: Laws 1990, ch. 78, § 3; 1994, ch. 76, § 4; 2003, ch. 287, § 3; 2007, ch. 165, § 3; 2009, ch. 32, § 2.

Cross references. — For Title 19 of the federal Social Security Act, see 42 U.S.C. § 1396 et seq.

The 2009 amendment, effective June 19, 2009, added Subsection A.

The 2007 amendment, effective June 15, 2007, added Subsections F and G and deleted former Subsections B, I and J, which defined "dental insurance coverage", "obligee" and "obligor".

The 2003 amendment, effective April 8, 2003, deleted "human services" near the end of Subsection B; substituted "19" for "XIX" following "authorized by Title" in Subsections B and E; rewrote Subsection F; added present Subsection H; redesignated former Subsections H and I as Subsections I and J; and inserted "for" following "duty of support or" in Subsection J.

The 1994 amendment, effective March 4, 1994, deleted "the child support enforcement division of" following "means" in Subsection C, deleted "human services" preceding "department" in Subsections E and H, added Subsection F, and redesignated former Subsections F to H as Subsections G to I.