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H.R.2445
Sponsor: Rep Maloney, Carolyn B.(introduced 7/1/1999)
Latest Major Action: 8/6/1999 Referred to House subcommittee
Title: To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the application of the mental health parity provisions to annual and lifetime visit or benefit limits, as well as dollar limits.
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TITLE(S):  (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)
STATUS: (color indicates Senate actions)
7/1/1999:
Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
7/1/1999:
Referred to House Commerce
7/21/1999:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
7/1/1999:
Referred to House Education and the Workforce
8/6/1999:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
7/1/1999:
Referred to House Ways and Means
COMMITTEE(S):
RELATED BILL DETAILS:

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AMENDMENT(S):

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COSPONSORS(12), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Rep Ackerman, Gary L. - 7/1/1999 Rep Capuano, Michael E. - 7/21/1999
Rep Engel, Eliot L. - 7/1/1999 Rep Gilman, Benjamin A. - 7/1/1999
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 7/1/1999 Rep McCarthy, Carolyn - 7/1/1999
Rep McNulty, Michael R. - 7/1/1999 Rep Menendez, Robert - 7/1/1999
Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 7/1/1999 Rep Serrano, Jose E. - 7/1/1999
Rep Towns, Edolphus - 7/1/1999 Rep Weiner, Anthony D. - 7/12/1999

SUMMARY AS OF:
7/1/1999--Introduced.

Mental Health Parity Enhancement Act of 1999 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to specify that mental health parity provisions apply to annual and lifetime visit or benefit limits, as well as to dollar limits set by health plans.