2020 Senate Bill 1157

Mandate mental health insurance “parity”

Introduced in the Senate

Sept. 30, 2020

Introduced by Sen. Jeff Irwin (D-18)

To impose a new mandate that would require health insurance companies to include coverage for mental health treatment in all their policies, and prohibit requiring a higher deductible or co-pay for this coverage, or providing a lower benefit level, than those that apply to coverage for physical ailments.

Referred to the Committee on Insurance and Banking