Prohibiting sexual orientation change efforts on minors and providing a penalty. (FE)

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill prohibits a mental health provider, as defined in the bill, from engaging in any practice that seeks to change a child's sexual orientation, including an effort to change behaviors, gender identity, or gender expression or an effort to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward individuals of the same sex. The prohibition created in the bill does not apply to counseling for an individual seeking to transition from one gender to another or to psychotherapy that provides acceptance, support, or understanding of a client or the facilitation of a client's coping, social support, and identity exploration and development and that does not seek to change sexual orientation. A mental health provider who violates the prohibition is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime, the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a report concerning the proposed penalty and the costs or savings that are likely to result if the bill is enacted.

Who's behind it

3 senators are its authors⁠. All 3 are Democrats.

4 more lawmakers signed on in support⁠.

Versions and amendments

Every text the Legislature printed for this bill, including proposed changes. Each opens on the Legislature's site.

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