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Evaluating State Mental Health and Addiction Parity Statutes: A Technical Report v Table of Contents Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................................. 4 State and Federal Shared Responsibility ................................................................................................................. 5 The Importance of State Laws........................................................................................................................................ 6 The Statutory Coding Instrument ................................................................................................................................ 7 State Statutory Scores and Grades .......................................................................................................................... 10 The Importance of Regulatory Compliance, and Enforcement Efforts ............................................ 12 Promising Practices ........................................................................................................................................................... 13 Conclusions ............................................................................................................................................................................ 16 Appendix A: Glossary ...................................................................................................................................................... 18 Appendix B: State Statutory Coding Instrument ........................................................................................... 21 Appendix C: Parity Track and Proposed Legislation ...................................................................................... 28