Mental Health Parity Enforcement and Funding Act

This bill would let the U.S. Department of Labor charge civil money penalties when employer group health plans fail to meet federal rules requiring mental health and substance use disorder benefits to be on par with medical benefits. The penalties could apply to plan sponsors, service providers, plan administrators, and insurers. The Secretary of Labor would be allowed to enforce these parity rules, including against certain plans where enforcement is otherwise limited. The penalty changes would apply to plan years starting more than one year after the bill becomes law, and the bill would provide $30 million per year from 2027 through 2031 to the Employee Benefits Security Administration to carry out parity laws.

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Sponsors

• Thomas H. Kean, Jr. Republican sponsor
• 1 cosponsors