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H.R. 3165: Mental Health Parity Compliance Act

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H.R. 3165: Mental Health Parity Compliance Act

116th Congress · introduced 2019-06-10 · Health · Latest: Subcommittee Hearings Held.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2019-06-10 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Porter, Katie [D-CA-45] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Subcommittee Hearings Held. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Mental Health Parity Compliance Act

Plain summary

Mental Health Parity Compliance Act This bill revises the mental health parity rules to require private health insurance plans that offer both medical and mental health coverage to prepare a comparative analysis of nonquantitative treatment limitations (NQTLs). (NQTLs are limitations on the scope or duration of benefits for treatment, such as preauthorization requirements.) The comparative analysis must be available for the Department of Health and Human Services upon request and must include (1) a description of the NQTL and the specific services to which it applies, (2) the factors used to determine when the NQTL will apply, and (3) a description of how the NQTLs applicable to mental health or substance use disorder benefits are comparable to, and no more stringent than, the NQTLs applicable to medical or surgical benefits, among other information.

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Official text

Mental Health Parity Compliance Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Porter, Katie [D-CA-45] · 60 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Jared F. Golden (D-ME), Lucy McBath (D-GA), Bill Foster (D-IL), Lauren Underwood (D-IL), Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), J. French Hill (R-AR), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), John H. Rutherford (R-FL), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Seth Moulton (D-MA), David P. Joyce (R-OH), Darren Soto (D-FL), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Susie Lee (D-NV), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Haley M. Stevens (D-MI), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Josh Harder (D-CA), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Angie Craig (D-MN), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ed Case (D-HI), Chris Pappas (D-NH), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Sylvia R. Garcia (D-TX), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Mike Levin (D-CA), Chellie Pingree (D-ME)

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Bill
A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).
Rulemaking
The process agencies use to write regulations that carry out laws passed by Congress or a legislature. Usually an agency publishes a proposed rule, takes public comments, then publishes a final rule.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong116-hr3165 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116