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Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act of 1999

Introduced: April 14, 1999 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
Introduced
In committee
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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 Congressional Research Service

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 May 18, 2000

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 106-582.

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