RCW 74.20A.300
Medical support—Health care coverage required.
(1) Whenever a support order is entered or modified under this chapter, the department shall require either or both parents to provide medical support for any dependent child, in the nature of health care coverage or a monthly payment toward the premium, as provided under RCW 26.09.105.
(2) A parent ordered to provide health care coverage shall provide proof of such coverage or proof that such coverage is unavailable to the department within twenty days of the entry of the order.
(3) A parent required to provide health care coverage must notify the department and the other parent when coverage terminates.
(4) Every order requiring a parent to provide health care coverage shall be entered in compliance with *RCW 26.23.050 and be subject to direct enforcement as provided under chapter 26.18 RCW.
[ 2018 c 150 § 110; 2009 c 476 § 6; 1994 c 230 § 22; 1989 c 416 § 6.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: The reference to RCW 26.23.050 appears to refer to the amendments made by 1989 c 416 § 8 that were subsequently vetoed by the governor.
Effective date—2009 c 476: See note following RCW 26.09.105.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 74.20A - Support of Dependent Children—Alternative Method—1971 Act.
74.20A.010 - Purpose—Remedies additional.
74.20A.030 - Department subrogated to rights for support—Enforcement actions—Certain parents exempt.
74.20A.035 - Augmentation of paternity establishment services.
74.20A.040 - Notice of support debt—Service or mailing—Contents—Action on, when.
74.20A.057 - Jurisdiction over responsible parent.
74.20A.060 - Assertion of lien—Effect.
74.20A.095 - Support enforcement services—Action against earnings within state—Notice.
74.20A.100 - Civil liability upon failure to comply with order or lien—Collection.
74.20A.110 - Release of excess to debtor.
74.20A.140 - Action for foreclosure of support lien—Satisfaction.
74.20A.150 - Satisfaction of lien after foreclosure proceedings instituted—Redemption.
74.20A.160 - Secretary may set debt payment schedule, release funds in certain hardship cases.
74.20A.170 - Secretary may release lien or order or return seized property—Effect.
74.20A.180 - Secretary may make demand, file and serve liens, when payments appear in jeopardy.
74.20A.200 - Judicial relief after administrative remedies exhausted.
74.20A.230 - Employee debtor rights protected—Remedies.
74.20A.240 - Assignment of earnings to be honored—Effect—Income withholding forms—Processing fee.
74.20A.250 - Secretary empowered to act as attorney, endorse drafts.
74.20A.275 - Support payments in possession of third parties—Collection.
74.20A.280 - Department to respect privacy of recipients.
74.20A.290 - Applicant for adjudicative proceeding must advise department of current address.
74.20A.300 - Medical support—Health care coverage required.
74.20A.310 - Federal and state cooperation—Rules—Construction.
74.20A.322 - License suspension—Adjudicative proceeding.
74.20A.324 - License suspension—Certification of noncompliance.
74.20A.326 - License suspension—Payment schedule arrangements.
74.20A.328 - License suspension—Rules.
74.20A.350 - Noncompliance—Notice—Fines—License suspension—Hearings—Rules.
74.20A.360 - Records access—Confidentiality—Nonliability—Penalty for noncompliance.
74.20A.370 - Financial institution data matches.
74.20A.900 - Severability—Alternative when method of notification held invalid.
74.20A.920 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.