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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 957
To provide for civil monetary penalties for violations of mental health parity
requirements.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY4, 2025
Mr. N
ORCROSS(for himself, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. COURTNEY, Mr. POCAN,
and Mr. J
OHNSONof Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce
A BILL
To provide for civil monetary penalties for violations of
mental health parity requirements.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Parity Enforcement 4
Act of 2025’’. 5
SEC. 2. CIVIL MONETARY PENALTIES FOR PARITY VIOLA-6
TIONS. 7
(a) C
IVILMONETARYPENALTIESRELATING TOPAR-8
ITY INMENTALHEALTH AND SUBSTANCEUSEDIS-9
ORDERS.—Section 502(c)(10) of the Employee Retirement 10
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Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1132(c)(10)(A)) 1
is amended— 2
(1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘
USE OF GE-3
NETIC INFORMATION ’’ and inserting ‘‘USE OF GE-4
NETIC INFORMATION AND PARITY IN MENTAL 5
HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER BENE -6
FITS’’; and 7
(2) in subparagraph (A)— 8
(A) by striking ‘‘any plan sponsor of a 9
group health plan’’ and inserting ‘‘any plan 10
sponsor, service provider, or plan administrator 11
of a group health plan’’; and 12
(B) by striking ‘‘for any failure’’ and all 13
that follows through ‘‘in connection with the 14
plan.’’ and inserting ‘‘for any failure by such 15
sponsor, service provider, administrator, or 16
issuer, in connection with the plan— 17
‘‘(i) to meet the requirements of sub-18
section (a)(1)(F), (b)(3), (c), or (d) of sec-19
tion 702 or section 701 or 702(b)(1) with 20
respect to genetic information; or 21
‘‘(ii) to meet the requirements of sub-22
section (a) of section 712 with respect to 23
parity in mental health and substance use 24
disorder benefits.’’. 25
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(b) EXCEPTION TO THE GENERALPROHIBITION ON 1
E
NFORCEMENT.—Section 502 of such Act (29 U.S.C. 2
1132) is amended— 3
(1) in subsection (a)(6), by striking ‘‘or (9)’’ 4
and inserting ‘‘(9), or (10)’’; and 5
(2) in subsection (b)(3)— 6
(A) by striking ‘‘subsections (c)(9) and 7
(a)(6)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsections (c)(9), 8
(c)(10), and (a)(6)’’; and 9
(B) by striking ‘‘under subsection (c)(9))’’ 10
and inserting ‘‘under subsections (c)(9) and 11
(c)(10)), and except with respect to enforce-12
ment by the Secretary of section 712’’. 13
(c) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 14
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to group health 15
plans, or any health insurance issuer offering health insur-16
ance coverage in connection with such plan, for plan years 17
beginning after the date that is 1 year after the date of 18
enactment of this Act. 19
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