§ 20-2-402 — Employer's obligations

Wyoming § 20-2-402

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 20: Domestic Relations
• Ch. 2: DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE
• Art. 4: MEDICAL SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN

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(a) Where a parent is required by a court or
administrative order to provide health coverage for a child, at
the time of the order, which is offered by and available through
an employer doing business in this state to the parent, the
employer is required to comply with the following:
(i) To permit the parent who has already met
eligibility requirements, to enroll, under the family coverage,
any child who is otherwise eligible for the coverage without
regard to any enrollment season restrictions;
(ii) If the parent is enrolled but fails to make
application to obtain coverage for the child, to permit
enrollment of the child under family coverage upon application
by the child's other parent, the department of health in
administering the Wyoming Medical Assistance and Services Act or
the department of family services in administering the child
support enforcement program;
(iii) To transfer the national medical support notice
to the appropriate group health plan providing the health care
coverage for which the child is eligible within twenty (20)
business days after the date of the national medical support
notice;
(iv) To withhold from the employee's compensation the
employee's share, if any, of premiums for health coverage and to
pay this amount to the insurer;
(v) Not to disenroll, or eliminate coverage of, the
child unless the employee is no longer insured by that
employer's plan or the employer is provided satisfactory written
evidence that:
(A) The court or administrative order is no
longer in effect;
(B) The child is or will be enrolled in
comparable health coverage which will take effect not later than
the effective date of disenrollment;
(C) The employer has eliminated family health
coverage for all of its employees; or
(D) The employee is no longer working for the
employer.
(vi) To notify the department within thirty (30)
business days whenever the obligor's employment is terminated.
The notice shall include the following information:
(A) When the obligor left the employment;
(B) The last known address of the obligor;
(C) The last known telephone number for the
obligor; and
(D) The name, address and telephone number of
the obligor's new employer, if known.
(b) No employer shall use the existence of the medical
child support order authorized by this act:
(i) As grounds for discharge or discipline;
(ii) To otherwise penalize an obligor; or
(iii) As grounds to refuse to employ a person.
(c) Any employer who violates subsection (a) or (b) of
this section is subject to a civil penalty of not more than one
hundred dollars ($100.00). Any penalty collected under this
section shall be distributed to the county public school fund in
the county where the penalty was collected.