Surely, this is not why they lobbied. Good that others realize this front as a dishonest ploy:

www.naswtx.org/refs/eos2001.htm

NASW/Texas

Government Affairs Report

By Leslie Hernandez, MPA, LMSW And Intern, Will G. Dickey, Attorney and University of Houston Graduate School of Social Work Student

77th Legislative Session (2001)

Mental Health Parity for Children

About thirty people affiliated with the Church of Scientology signed up to testify on this bill. Consequently, the chair never pulled it up, and the bill was dead. These people did not reveal at that time what they planned to say in their testimony. However, their website states that children do not need mental health treatment, that they need better diets and parents with good parenting skills. They had been lobbying legislators in the guise of being small business owners who would suffer because of increased costs.

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