Evaluating State Mental Health and Addiction Parity Statutes: A Technical Report
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State Statutory Scores and
Grades
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ased on the results of the Statutory Coding Instrument (SCI), the states with the highest
grades and points for their statutes are Illinois (A, 100), Tennessee (C, 79), Maine (C, 76),
Alabama (C, 74), Virginia (C,71), and New Hampshire (C, 71). However, the laws of most of these
higher-scoring states have room for improvement.
The state statutes with the lowest grades and points are Wyoming (F, 10), Arizona (F, 26), Idaho
(F, 36), Indiana (F, 38), Alaska (F, 43), and Nebraska (F, 43). Wyoming is noteworthy for being the
only state not to address mental health parity in its statutory code.
Figure 2 provides a map of the United States that has been color coded according to grades.
It should be noted that 43 states received a grade of grade of D or F, with only seven states
receiving a satisfactory grade of "C" or higher. Table 2 lists the SCI score for each state.
Figure 2: Map of the United States, Color Coded by Statutory Grades
