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205.595 Health coverage for child under medical child support order -- Duties of employers.

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Page 1 of 1 205.595 Health coverage for child under medical child support order -- Duties of employers. If a parent is required by a court or administrative order to provide health coverage for a <br>child and the parent is eligible for family health coverage through an employer doing <br>business in the Commonwealth, the employer is required: <br>(1) To permit the parent to enroll under family coverage any child who is otherwise eligible for the coverage, without regard to any enrollment season restrictions; (2) In the case where the noncustodial parent provides health care coverage and changes employment, to accept a notice of transfer of the provision to enroll from <br>the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the custodial parent or the noncustodial <br>parent, and to enroll the child in the noncustodial parent's health care coverage, <br>unless the noncustodial parent contests the notice pursuant to KRS Chapter 13B; (3) If a parent is enrolled but fails to make application to obtain coverage for the child, to enroll the child under family coverage upon application by the child's other <br>parent, custodial parent, or by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; (4) Not to disenroll or eliminate coverage of a child unless: (a) The employer is provided satisfactory written evidence that a court or administrative order requiring coverage of the child is no longer in effect, or <br>that the child is or will be enrolled in comparable health coverage which will <br>take effect no later than the effective date of the disenrollment; or (b) The employer has eliminated family health coverage for all of its employees; and (5) To withhold from the employee's compensation the employee's share, if any, of premiums for health coverage, except that the amount withheld may not exceed the <br>maximum amount permitted to be withheld under Section 303(b) of the Federal <br>Consumer Credit Protection Act, and to pay the share of premiums to the insurer. Effective: June 20, 2005 <br>History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 244, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 255, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1998; and ch. 426, sec. 202, <br>effective July 15, 1998. -- Created 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 366, sec. 3, effective July 15, <br>1994.