SB 8

The bill prohibits certain able-bodied adults and able-bodied parents who

refuse to cooperate in determining the paternity of a child, establishing or enforcing

any support order, or obtaining any other payments or property to which the adult

or the child has rights from being eligible for the Medical Assistance program. The

bill also prohibits certain parents who are delinquent in child support payments and

do not satisfy an exception specified in the bill or who refuse to cooperate in providing

or obtaining support for their child from being eligible for the Medical Assistance

program. Under the bill, a dependent child remains eligible for the Medical

Assistance program even if a person charged with the care and custody of the

dependent child is ineligible for the Medical Assistance program because he or she

did not comply with those requirements. Under current law, a person is required,

as a condition of eligibility for Medical Assistance, to fully cooperate in good faith

with efforts directed at establishing the paternity of a nonmarital child and

obtaining support payments or any other payments or property to which the person

and the dependent child may have rights.