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The Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) is legislation signed into United States law on September 26, 1996 that requires annual or lifetime dollar limits on mental health benefits to be no lower than any such dollar limits for medical and surgical benefits offered by a group health plan or health insurance issuer offering coverage in connection with a group health plan. [1]
The campaign for a popularly elected Senate is frequently credited with "prodding" the Senate to join the House of Representatives in proposing what became the Seventeenth Amendment to the states in 1912, while the latter two campaigns came very close to meeting the two-thirds threshold in the 1960s and 1980s, respectively. [6] [13
House agreed to Senate amendment on June 17, 1970 Signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on June 22, 1970 Anticipating the expiration of the Act's special provisions in 1970, Congress held extensive hearings on whether the Act should be amended and its special provisions reauthorized.
House agreed to Senate amendment on April 30, 2002 (412-0, Roll call vote 117, via Clerk.House.gov) Signed into law by President George W. Bush on May 15, 2002 The Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 is a United States federal law that seeks to discourage federal managers and supervisors from ...
A conference committee to reconcile the House and Senate bills began meeting on August 18, 1959. [82] On September 3 and 4, the House and Senate passed the conference committee bill, which was far closer to the original Landrum-Griffin bill than the Kennedy-Ervin bill, and President Eisenhower signed the bill into law on September 14, 1959. [25 ...
The Senate finally joined the House to submit the Seventeenth Amendment to the states for ratification, nearly ninety years after it first was presented to the Senate in 1826. [ 34 ] By 1912, 239 political parties at both the state and national level had pledged some form of direct election, and 33 states had introduced the use of direct ...
The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE or the Access Act, Pub. L. No. 103-259, 108 Stat. 694) (May 26, 1994, 18 U.S.C. § 248) is a United States law that was signed by President Bill Clinton in May 1994, which prohibits the following three things: (1) the use of physical force, threat of physical force, or physical obstruction to intentionally injure, intimidate, interfere with ...
Passed the Senate on June 22, 1944 with amendment House agreed to Senate amendment on June 23, 1944 (Agreed) Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on July 1, 1944