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S.796
Sponsor: Sen Domenici, Pete V.(introduced 4/14/1999)
Latest Major Action: 5/18/2000 Senate committee/subcommittee actions: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 106-582.
Title: A bill to provide for full parity with respect to health insurance coverage for certain severe biologically-based mental illnesses and to prohibit limits on the number of mental illness-related hospital days and outpatient visits that are covered for all mental illnesses.
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TITLE(S):  (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)
STATUS: (color indicates Senate actions) (Floor Actions/Congressional Record Page References)
4/14/1999:
Read twice and referred to the Committee on HELP.
5/18/2000:
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 106-582.
COMMITTEE(S):
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AMENDMENT(S):

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COSPONSORS(28), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Sen Akaka, Daniel K. - 4/21/1999 Sen Bennett, Robert F. - 5/2/2000
Sen Biden Jr., Joseph R. - 6/29/1999 Sen Byrd, Robert C. - 6/8/2000
Sen Chafee, John H. - 4/14/1999 Sen Chafee, Lincoln D. - 1/31/2000
Sen Cleland, Max - 3/23/2000 Sen Cochran, Thad - 4/19/1999
Sen Dodd, Christopher J. - 8/3/1999 Sen Dorgan, Byron L. - 6/17/1999
Sen Durbin, Richard J. - 6/21/1999 Sen Grassley, Charles E. - 4/12/2000
Sen Inouye, Daniel K. - 5/26/1999 Sen Johnson, Tim - 8/3/1999
Sen Kennedy, Edward M. - 4/14/1999 Sen Kerry, John F. - 5/3/1999
Sen Levin, Carl - 2/22/2000 Sen Mikulski, Barbara A. - 4/22/1999
Sen Reed, Jack - 6/30/1999 Sen Reid, Harry M. - 4/14/1999
Sen Robb, Charles S. - 6/22/1999 Sen Rockefeller IV, John D. - 1/24/2000
Sen Sarbanes, Paul S. - 4/14/1999 Sen Schumer, Charles E. - 4/22/1999
Sen Specter, Arlen - 4/14/1999 Sen Warner, John W. - 5/12/1999
Sen Wellstone, Paul D. - 4/14/1999 Sen Wyden, Ron - 10/4/1999

SUMMARY AS OF:
4/14/1999--Introduced.

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.