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Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act of 2001
Introduced: March 15, 2001
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Sep 6, 2001
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 153.
Sep 6, 2001
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Kennedy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 107-61. Additional views filed.
Aug 1, 2001
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Jul 11, 2001
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.
Mar 15, 2001
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2394-2395)
Mar 15, 2001
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2393-2394)
Mar 15, 2001
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act of 2001 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act, respectively, to prohibit certain employee group health plans or related insurances providing both medical-surgical and mental health benefits from imposing mental health treatment limitations or financial requirements unless comparable limitations and requirements are imposed upon medical-surgical benefits. Exempts specified small employers from such requirements.
Requires a General Accounting Office study of such requirements' effects upon health insurance costs, access, and quality.
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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 153.
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