PRINTER'S NO. 1048
No. 919 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY LEWIS, MELLOW, PORTERFIELD, ANDREZESKI, REIBMAN,
SALVATORE, GREENWOOD, ROCKS, CORMAN AND BELAN, MAY 9, 1989
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, MAY 9, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for health care
3 expenses in support matters.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 4324 of Title 23 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 4324. Inclusion of medical support.
9 [In addition to] Included as periodic support payments, the
10 court may require that an obligor pay a designated percentage of
11 a child's or spouse's reasonable and necessary health care
12 expenses, including birth-related expenses incurred prior to the
13 filing of the complaint. If health care coverage is available
14 through an obligor or obligee at no cost as a benefit of
15 employment or at a reasonable cost, the court shall order an
16 obligor or obligee to provide or extend health care coverage to
17 a child or spouse. Upon failure of the obligor to make this
18 payment or reimburse the custodial parent or spouse and after
1 compliance with procedural due process requirement, the court
2 shall treat the amount as arrearages.
3 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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