CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1779Introduced by Assembly Member NazarianJanuary 04, 2018 An act to amend Section 865.1 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to sexual orientation. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1779, as introduced, Nazarian. Sexual orientation: change efforts.Existing law provides for licensing and regulation of various professions in the healing arts, including physicians and surgeons, psychologists, psychiatric technicians, marriage and family therapists, educational psychologists, clinical social workers, and licensed professional clinical counselors. Existing law prohibits mental health providers, as defined, from performing sexual orientation change efforts, as specified, with a patient under 18 years of age. Existing law provides that any sexual orientation change efforts attempted on a patient under 18 years of age by a mental health provider shall be considered unprofessional conduct and shall subject the provider to discipline by the providers licensing entity.This bill would additionally prohibit a mental health provider from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with a patient, regardless of age, under a conservatorship or a guardianship.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 865.1 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:865.1. Under no circumstances shall a mental health provider engage in sexual orientation change efforts with a patient under 18 years of age. age, or with a patient, regardless of age, under a conservatorship or a guardianship.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1779Introduced by Assembly Member NazarianJanuary 04, 2018 An act to amend Section 865.1 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to sexual orientation. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1779, as introduced, Nazarian. Sexual orientation: change efforts.Existing law provides for licensing and regulation of various professions in the healing arts, including physicians and surgeons, psychologists, psychiatric technicians, marriage and family therapists, educational psychologists, clinical social workers, and licensed professional clinical counselors. Existing law prohibits mental health providers, as defined, from performing sexual orientation change efforts, as specified, with a patient under 18 years of age. Existing law provides that any sexual orientation change efforts attempted on a patient under 18 years of age by a mental health provider shall be considered unprofessional conduct and shall subject the provider to discipline by the providers licensing entity.This bill would additionally prohibit a mental health provider from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with a patient, regardless of age, under a conservatorship or a guardianship.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill No. 1779
Introduced by Assembly Member NazarianJanuary 04, 2018
Introduced by Assembly Member Nazarian
January 04, 2018
An act to amend Section 865.1 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to sexual orientation.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1779, as introduced, Nazarian. Sexual orientation: change efforts.
Existing law provides for licensing and regulation of various professions in the healing arts, including physicians and surgeons, psychologists, psychiatric technicians, marriage and family therapists, educational psychologists, clinical social workers, and licensed professional clinical counselors. Existing law prohibits mental health providers, as defined, from performing sexual orientation change efforts, as specified, with a patient under 18 years of age. Existing law provides that any sexual orientation change efforts attempted on a patient under 18 years of age by a mental health provider shall be considered unprofessional conduct and shall subject the provider to discipline by the providers licensing entity.This bill would additionally prohibit a mental health provider from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with a patient, regardless of age, under a conservatorship or a guardianship.
Existing law provides for licensing and regulation of various professions in the healing arts, including physicians and surgeons, psychologists, psychiatric technicians, marriage and family therapists, educational psychologists, clinical social workers, and licensed professional clinical counselors. Existing law prohibits mental health providers, as defined, from performing sexual orientation change efforts, as specified, with a patient under 18 years of age. Existing law provides that any sexual orientation change efforts attempted on a patient under 18 years of age by a mental health provider shall be considered unprofessional conduct and shall subject the provider to discipline by the providers licensing entity.
This bill would additionally prohibit a mental health provider from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with a patient, regardless of age, under a conservatorship or a guardianship.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 865.1 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:865.1. Under no circumstances shall a mental health provider engage in sexual orientation change efforts with a patient under 18 years of age. age, or with a patient, regardless of age, under a conservatorship or a guardianship.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 865.1 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:865.1. Under no circumstances shall a mental health provider engage in sexual orientation change efforts with a patient under 18 years of age. age, or with a patient, regardless of age, under a conservatorship or a guardianship.
SECTION 1. Section 865.1 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:
### SECTION 1.
865.1. Under no circumstances shall a mental health provider engage in sexual orientation change efforts with a patient under 18 years of age. age, or with a patient, regardless of age, under a conservatorship or a guardianship.
865.1. Under no circumstances shall a mental health provider engage in sexual orientation change efforts with a patient under 18 years of age. age, or with a patient, regardless of age, under a conservatorship or a guardianship.
865.1. Under no circumstances shall a mental health provider engage in sexual orientation change efforts with a patient under 18 years of age. age, or with a patient, regardless of age, under a conservatorship or a guardianship.
865.1. Under no circumstances shall a mental health provider engage in sexual orientation change efforts with a patient under 18 years of age. age, or with a patient, regardless of age, under a conservatorship or a guardianship.