H.R. 1367 - Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007
- Sponsor:
- Patrick Kennedy
- Summary:
- To amend section 712 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, section 2705 of the Public Health Service Act, and section 9812 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require equity in the provision of mental health and substance-related disorder benefits under group health plans. (by CRS)
- Status:
- The bill has been introduced.
Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007
H.R. 1367 — 110th Congress (2007–2008)
- Summary
- To amend section 712 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, section 2705 of the Public Health Service Act, and section 9812 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require equity in the provision of mental health and substance-related disorder benefits under group health plans. (by CRS)
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- Title
- To amend section 712 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, section 2705 of the Public Health Service Act, and section 9812 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require equity in the provision of mental health and substance-related disorder benefits under group health plans.
- Other Titles
- Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007
- Sponsor
- Patrick Kennedy
- Co-Sponsors
- Philip English
- Grace Napolitano
- Gwen Moore
- Edward Markey
- Madeleine Bordallo
- John Mica
- Bob Filner
- James Walsh
- Mark Kirk
- Eni Faleomavaega
- John Salazar
- Timothy Bishop
- Zachary Space
- Donna Christensen
- Peter King
- Sheila Jackson-Lee
- Silvestre Reyes
- Dennis Kucinich
- Frederick Upton
- Robert Scott
- Carolyn McCarthy
- Jerrold Nadler
- Tom Udall
- George Butterfield
- Rodney Frelinghuysen
- Ray LaHood
- Paul Kanjorski
- Raymond Green
- Barton Gordon
- James McGovern
- Jim Costa
- John Tierney
- Wayne Gilchrest
- Artur Davis
- John Conyers
- Henry Cuellar
- Raul Grijalva
- Yvette Clarke
- Rick Renzi
- Tim Holden
- William Delahunt
- Dennis Moore
- Michael Arcuri
- Christopher Carney
- Solomon Ortiz
- Christopher Smith
- Eliot Engel
- C. Thompson
- Nita Lowey
- Charles Rangel
- Eleanor Norton
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
- Gregory Meeks
- Lincoln Davis
- Robert Wexler
- Sam Farr
- Alcee Hastings
- Melvin Watt
- Kathy Castor
- Dennis Cardoza
- James Ramstad
- Allyson Schwartz
- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
- Keith Ellison
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
- Jesse Jackson
- Michael McNulty
- Michael Capuano
- Adam Smith
- Adam Schiff
- Ed Perlmutter
- Anna Eshoo
- Daniel Lipinski
- Earl Pomeroy
- Gary Ackerman
- Diane Watson
- Nicholas Lampson
- Michael Ferguson
- Michael Michaud
- David Obey
- Jerry McNerney
- James Marshall
- Timothy Walz
- Edolphus Towns
- John McHugh
- Christopher Shays
- Diana DeGette
- Ellen Tauscher
- Hilda Solis
- Addison Wilson
- Rush Holt
- Tim Murphy
- Charles Gonzalez
- Mark Udall
- Ike Skelton
- Linda Sánchez
- Bruce Braley
- Dale Kildee
- James McDermott
- Chaka Fattah
- Stephen Lynch
- David Wu
- Sanford Bishop
- Donald Payne
- Ron Klein
- H. Saxton
- Gabrielle Giffords
- Collin Peterson
- Spencer Bachus
- Thomas Allen
- Zoe Lofgren
- John Sullivan
- Tom Lantos
- Bennie Thompson
- Peter Visclosky
- Steven LaTourette
- Doris Matsui
- Timothy Ryan
- Ciro Rodriguez
- Fortney Stark
- Rodney Alexander
- Ric Keller
- Nick Rahall
- John Spratt
- Jim Gerlach
- Jerry Costello
- Juanita Millender-McDonald
- Lucille Roybal-Allard
- James Langevin
- Nydia Velázquez
- Robert Andrews
- Charles Wilson
- Loretta Sanchez
- Jo Ann Emerson
- Kirsten Gillibrand
- Corrine Brown
- David Loebsack
- Ben Chandler
- Allen Boyd
- Joe Courtney
- Frank Pallone
- Henry Johnson
- Melissa Bean
- Neil Abercrombie
- John Tanner
- Rosa DeLauro
- Joseph Crowley
- John Yarmuth
- Kendrick Meek
- Betty McCollum
- Jane Harman
- Lynn Woolsey
- Steven Rothman
- Barbara Lee
- Barney Frank
- Tammy Baldwin
- Victor Snyder
- Steve Kagen
- John Hall
- Maxine Waters
- Phil Hare
- Anthony Weiner
- Al Green
- Steve Israel
- Carolyn Maloney
- Maurice Hinchey
- Robert Berry
- Louise Slaughter
- Joe Sestak
- Bobby Rush
- Carolyn Kilpatrick
- Lloyd Doggett
- Janice Schakowsky
- José Serrano
- Jim Matheson
- Dan Boren
- Xavier Becerra
- Peter Welch
- Alan Mollohan
- Marcy Kaptur
- Martin Meehan
- Rahm Emanuel
- James Oberstar
- William Clay
- Thomas Edwards
- John Barrow
- Russ Carnahan
- Mazie Hirono
- Jean Schmidt
- Jim Cooper
- Rick Larsen
- Steny Hoyer
- Mike McIntyre
- Bob Etheridge
- Charles Pickering
- Zach Wamp
- Jay Inslee
- Christopher Van Hollen
- Frank LoBiondo
- Steve Cohen
- Joe Baca
- Albio Sires
- Danny Davis
- Donald Young
- David Price
- Brad Sherman
- Betty Sutton
- John Sarbanes
- Richard Neal
- William Jefferson
- Frederick Boucher
- Norman Dicks
- Bart Stupak
- Michael Honda
- Brian Higgins
- Robert Brady
- Paul Hodes
- James Moran
- Eddie Johnson
- Susan Davis
- Edward Pastor
- John Murtha
- Elijah Cummings
- Earl Blumenauer
- Leonard Boswell
- Stephanie Jones
- Ronald Kind
- John Lewis
- Albert Wynn
- Carol Shea-Porter
- Shelley Berkley
- Sander Levin
- David Scott
- Brad Ellsworth
- Howard Berman
- John Olver
- Mike Ross
- Barbara Cubin
- Luis Gutiérrez
- Michael Doyle
- Lois Capps
- Christopher Murphy
- Brian Baird
- Henry Waxman
- John Larson
- Todd Platts
- Rubén Hinojosa
- Peter DeFazio
- Emanuel Cleaver
- C.A. Ruppersberger
- William Pascrell
- Darlene Hooley
- George Miller
- Julia Carson
- James Clyburn
- Subjects
- Health policy
- Access to health care
- Aged
- Ambulatory care
- Business
- Civil rights
- Coinsurance
- 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
- Government employees
- Government employees' health insurance
- Health insurance
- Health maintenance organizations
- Hospital care
- Insurance premiums
- Labor
- Managed care
- Medicaid
- Medical care
- Medical economics
- Medicare
- Medicine
- Mental health services
- Mental illness
- Quality of care
- Small business
- Welfare
- Related Bills
- H.R. 1424 (110th) : Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
- H.R. 6983 (110th) : Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008
- H.R. 7202 (110th) : Temporary Tax Relief Act of 2008
- H.R. 7207 (110th) : Spectrum Relocation Improvement Act of 2008
- S. 558 (110th) : Mental Health Parity Act of 2007
- Major Actions
Introduced 3/07/2007 Referred to Committee - Bill History
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There have been no votes on this bill.
Action Date Description Introduced 3/07/2007 3/07/2007 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. 3/07/2007 Referred to House Energy and Commerce 3/07/2007 Referred to House Education and Labor 3/07/2007 Referred to House Ways and Means 3/08/2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. 3/16/2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. 6/05/2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. Number Sponsor Date Offered Status
Total contributions given to House members from interest groups that…
supported this bill
| Other non-physician health practitioners | $1,547,960 |
| Psychiatrists & psychologists | $669,315 |
| Health & welfare policy | $236,130 |
| Mental Health Services | $47,799 |
| Consumer groups | $1,350 |
| $2,502,554 |
opposed this bill
| Wholesale trade | $99,150 |
| $99,150 |
Interest groups that supported this bill gave 25 times as much as interest groups that opposed this bill
Contributions data source: OpenSecrets.org
