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Texas Family Code - Section 154.186. Notice To Employer Concerning Medical Support

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§ 154.186. NOTICE TO EMPLOYER CONCERNING MEDICAL 
SUPPORT.  (a) The obligee, obligor, or a child support agency may 
send to the employer a copy of the order requiring an employee to 
provide health insurance coverage for a child or may include notice 
of the medical support order in an order or writ of withholding sent 
to the employer in accordance with Chapter 158.
	(b)  In an appropriate Title IV-D case, the Title IV-D agency 
shall send to the employer the national medical support notice 
required under Part D, Title IV of the federal Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. Section 651 et seq.), as amended.  The notice may be used 
in any other suit in which an obligor is ordered to provide health 
insurance coverage for a child.
	(c)  The Title IV-D agency by rule shall establish procedures 
consistent with federal law for use of the national medical support 
notice and may prescribe forms for the efficient use of the notice.  
The agency shall provide the notice and forms, on request, to 
obligees, obligors, domestic relations offices, friends of the 
court, and attorneys.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, § 1, eff. April 20, 1995.  
Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 341, § 4.04, eff. Sept. 1, 
1995;  Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 911, § 12, eff. Sept. 1, 1997;  
Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 120, § 1, eff. July 1, 2003.

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