Mental Health Parity Extension Included in House Economic Stimulus Legislation

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(October 15, 2001) - The ERISA Industry Committee reports that the House Ways and Means Committee on October 12 included a two-year extension of the existing mental health parity requirement found in Sec. 9812 of the Internal Revenue Code as part of its markup of H.R. 3090, the economic stimulus package. Rather than expanding current law as other existing proposals would, the mental health parity reauthorization provision in H.R. 3090 would simply leave current law in place for an additional two years, ERIC says.

Source: http://www.eric.org/breakingnews.htm