SB 706 (2020) -  Insurance Coverage Parity for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders

General Bill by Rouson
Insurance Coverage Parity for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders: Requiring Medicaid managed care plans to submit an annual report to the Agency for Health Care Administration relating to parity between mental health and substance use disorder benefits and medical and surgical benefits; requiring certain entities transacting individual or group health insurance or providing prepaid health care to comply with specified federal provisions that prohibit the imposition of less favorable benefit limitations on mental health and substance use disorder benefits than on medical and surgical benefits; revising the standard for defining substance use disorders, etc.
Effective Date: 07/01/2020
Last Event: 03/14/20 S Died in Banking and Insurance on Saturday, March 14, 2020 12:00 AM

Referred Committees and Committee Actions

Senate Referrals

  • Banking and Insurance
  • Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
  • Appropriations

Related Bills

Bill # Subject Relationship
Bill #: HB 939 Subject: Insurance Coverage Parity for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Relationship: Identical

Bill Text

Staff Analysis

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Vote History

(No Votes Recorded)

Bill History

Event Time Member Committee Ver.
Event: S Died in Banking and Insurance Time: 03/14/2020 - 12:00 AM Member: Committee: Banking and Insurance Version: __
Event: S Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration Time: 03/14/2020 - 12:00 AM Member: Committee: Version: __
Event: S Introduced -SJ 54 Time: 01/14/2020 - 11:02 AM Member: Committee: Version: __
Event: S Referred to Banking and Insurance; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations -SJ 54 Time: 11/18/2019 - 12:22 PM Member: Committee: Banking and Insurance Version: __
Event: S Filed Time: 10/30/2019 - 8:34 AM Member: Committee: Version: __

Statutes Referenced by this Bill

Statute Other Bill Citations
409.967 CS/CS/HB 731, HB 939, CS/CS/HB 945, CS/CS/SB 1440, CS/CS/SB 1726
627.4193 HB 939, CS/SB 7012*
627.6675 HB 939, HB 1293, SB 1724, CS/SB 7012*
627.668 HB 939, CS/SB 7012*
627.669 HB 939, CS/SB 7012*

(*) Not the latest version