SCS HB 973 - Mental Health Insurance Coverage - North Carolina Key Vote
Jean Preston voted Yea (Passage With Amendment) on this Legislation.
Timeline
- Executive Signed
- July 27, 2007
- House Concurrence Vote Passed
- July 12, 2007
- Senate Bill Passed
- July 3, 2007
- Introduced
- June 28, 2007
Related Issues
Stage Details
Title: Mental Health Insurance Coverage
Signed by Governor Michael Easley
Title: Mental Health Insurance Coverage
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that mandates that insurance companies regard mental health equally with other health areas in determining coverage and establishes minimal required benefits for those with mental illnesses.
Highlights:
-Does not require insurers to cover treatment associated with sex changes (sec. 1). -Establishes minimum benefits for mental healthcare, including thirty combined inpatient and outpatient days and thirty office visits per year (sec. 2).
Title: Mental Health Insurance Coverage
Committee Sponsors
- Health Care Committee (Sponsor)
- Alma Shealey Adams (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Daniel Terry 'Dan' Blue Jr. (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Rebecca A. 'Becky' Carney (NC - D)
- Walter Green 'Walt' Church Sr. (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Linda D. Coleman (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- James Walker 'Jim' Crawford Jr. (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- William Pete Cunningham (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Beverly Miller Earle (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jean Farmer-Butterfield (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Susan Carscaddon Fisher (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Pryor Allan Gibson III (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Rick Glazier (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- D. Bruce Goforth (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Melanie Wade Goodwin (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Larry D. Hall (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mary Price 'Pricey' Harrison (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Margaret M. 'Maggie' Jeffus (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Edward 'Ed' Jones (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Marvin Willis Lucas Jr. (NC - D)
- Paul Luebke (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Marian Nelson McLawhorn (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Annie Ward Mobley (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Earline W. Parmon (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Deborah K. Ross (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Cullie Max Tarleton (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Joe P. Tolson (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Edith Doughtie Warren (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jennifer Weiss (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- W. A. 'Winkie' Wilkins (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Larry W. Womble (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Michael H. Wray (NC - D)