Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1367
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2007-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Ambulatory care
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Coinsurance
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Discrimination in medical care
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee health benefits
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Hospital care
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medicare
Mental health services
Mental illness
Quality of care
Small business
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 
Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit treatment limits or the imposition of financial requirements on mental health and substance-related disorder benefits in group health plans which are not similarly imposed on substantially all medical and surgical benefits in any category of items or services under such plans.

Directs the Comptroller General to study the effect of the implementation of this Act on various aspects of the health care system, including the cost of and access to health insurance coverage, the quality of health care, Medicare, Medicaid, and state and local mental health and substance abuse treatment spending, and spending on public services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, 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.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, 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.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, 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.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, 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.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Introduced in House