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SB 22 (Beall) needs your help! When enacted, it will significantly help people who seek insurance parity for behavioral health problems. SB 22 requires health plans and insurers to submit an annual report to state regulators certifying compliance with state and federal mental health parity laws.
Placing the responsibility on insurers and health plans is a meaningful change from the current situation. At this time, the responsibility is on the patient to know the law and to go through the process of making a complaint if it is not followed.
SB 22 has one last committee to get through and it is a major one: the Assembly Appropriations Committee sometime next week. Then it must survive a vote on the floor of the Assembly before the end of August. Finally, it only becomes law if Governor Brown signs it.
Take Action
Please write one or more of the people listed below. If you have personal experience with the parity law, please briefly include that to thoroughly establish yourself as an expert:
Appropriations Committee (send to Chair and Vice-Chair or to all members):
Mike Gatto, Chair
http://www.asmdc.org/members/a43/
Diane Harkey, Vice-Chair
http://arc.asm.ca.gov/member/AD73
Frank Bigelow
http://arc.asm.ca.gov/member/AD5/Default.aspx
Raul Bocanegra
http://asmdc.org/members/a39/
Steven Bradford
http://www.asmdc.org/members/a62/
Ian Calderon
http://asmdc.org/members/a57/
Nora Campos
http://www.asmdc.org/members/a27/
Tim Donnelly
http://arc.asm.ca.gov/member/AD33/
Susan Talamantes Eggman
http://asmdc.org/members/a13/
Jimmy Gomez
http://asmdc.org/members/a51/
Isadore Hall, III
http://www.asmdc.org/members/a64/
Chris Holden
http://asmdc.org/members/a41/
Eric Linder
http://arc.asm.ca.gov/member/AD60/
Richard Pan
http://www.asmdc.org/members/a09/
Bill Quirk
http://www.asmdc.org/members/a09/
All Assembly Members and the Governor:
Contact Governor Jerry Brown
Thank you for helping!
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