S 796
106th Congress
Senate
Health
Ambulatory care
Anorexia nervosa
Attention deficit disorders
Autism
Child mental health services
Employee health benefits
Families
Health insurance
Hospital care
Hyperactive children
Labor and Employment
Mental depression
Mental health services
Mental illness
Mentally ill
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Schizophrenia
Standards
Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act of 1999
Introduced: April 14, 1999
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Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 18, 2000
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 106-582.
Apr 14, 1999
Read twice and referred to the Committee on HELP.
Apr 14, 1999
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3702-3704)
Apr 14, 1999
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act of 1999 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act to prohibit certain employee group health plans or related insurance coverages providing both medical-surgical and health benefits from imposing, in the absence of comparable medical-surgical limits: (1) mental health inpatient and outpatient benefit limits; and (2) limits on benefits for severe biologically based mental illnesses.
What's happening now
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 106-582.
Committees of jurisdiction
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