Key points of the legislation included:
1. Required states to get paternity on 75 percent of children.
2. State laws were required to ensure that health insurance plans could enforce orders for medical child support.
3. State laws were required to prevent health insurance plans from not allowing coverage to children who were not living with the subscriber or were born outside of marriage.
*Reference:
ESA Program Briefing Book 2008, A7-3, Child Support Legislative History