US Congress House Bill 2874 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 27-0)
Status: Introduced on May 21 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-06-30 - Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and the Treasury to (1) cooperatively issue regulations to require group health plans and health insurance issuers to annually disclose the analyses performed to ensure compliance with mental health parity laws, and (2) conduct annual random audits of group health plans and health insurance issuers to determine compliance. (Mental health parity laws prohibit health insurance plans that cover mental health and substance use disorder services from imposing less favorable limitations on those benefits than are placed on medical and surgical benefits under that plan.) Additionally, HHS must establish a consumer parity unit: (1) to facilitate the collection of, monitoring of, and response to consumer complaints; and (2) to provide consumers information about the disclosure requirements and enforcement of the mental health parity laws.

Behavioral Health Coverage Transparency Act

Rep. Joseph Kennedy [D-MA]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Michael Doyle [D-PA]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]
Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]	Rep. Darren Soto [D-FL]	Rep. Tony Cardenas [D-CA]	Rep. Debbie Dingell [D-MI]
Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL]	Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]	Rep. Jason Crow [D-CO]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]
Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D-CA]	Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]	Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]
Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Lauren Underwood [D-IL]	Rep. Lisa Rochester [D-DE]
Rep. David Trone [D-MD]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]	Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D-OH]
Rep. Nanette Barragan [D-CA]	Rep. John Sarbanes [D-MD]	Rep. G. Butterfield [D-NC]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-06-30	House	Subcommittee Hearings Held.
2019-05-22	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2019-05-21	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, 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.
2019-05-21	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, 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.
2019-05-21	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, 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.
2019-05-21	House	Introduced in House

SB1576 (Same As) 2019-05-21 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2874/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr2874/BILLS-116hr2874ih.pdf