1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Mental Health Parity Compliance Act . 2. Strengthening parity in mental health and substance use disorder benefits (a) Employee retirement income security act of 1974 Section 712(a) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ( 29 U.S.C. 1185a(a) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (6) Compliance requirements (A) Nonquantitative treatment limitation (nqtl) requirements In the case of a group health plan (or health insurance coverage offered in connection with such a plan) that provides both medical and surgical benefits and mental health or substance use disorder benefits, the plan or coverage shall perform comparative analyses about the design and application of nonquantitative treatment limitations (referred to in this paragraph as the NQTL ) in accordance with the following process, and make available to the Secretary upon request within 60 days beginning January 1, 2020, and immediately upon request beginning January 1, 2021 the following information: (i) The specific plan or coverage language regarding the NQTL and a description of all mental health or substance use disorder and medical/surgical services to which it applies in each respective benefits classification. (ii) The factors used to determine that an NQTL will apply to mental health or substance use disorder benefits and medical/surgical benefits, including factors that were considered but rejected. (iii) The evidentiary standard (both identified and deidentified) for each of the factors identified in clause (ii) and any other evidence relied upon to design and apply the NQTL to mental health or substance use disorder benefits and medical/surgical benefits. (iv) The comparative analyses demonstrating that the processes and strategies used to design the NQTL, as written, and the as written processes and strategies used to apply the NQTL for mental health or substance use disorder benefits are comparable to, and are applied no more stringently than, the processes and strategies used