Relating to sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts, and making penalties applicable

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 13, 2020
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 13, 2020
3. ✕
   Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the Senate
5. Next: House committee
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill prohibits practitioners from engaging in sexual orientation or gender identity change efforts with children (individuals under years of age). The bill provides that a practitioner who engages in sexual orientation or gender identity change efforts with a child is subject to disciplinary action by the entity or disciplinary authority with professional jurisdiction over the practitioner. The bill also requires the department of human services (DHS) to adopt administrative rules to prohibit, as a condition of licensure, an agency or individual licensed to provide child foster care from participating in sexual orientation or gender identity change efforts with a child for whom the licensed agency or individual is providing child foster care; to identify research-based instruction that supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth, including linguistic tools such as the correct use of pronouns and names, for incorporation into necessary training for DHS staff and for agencies or individuals licensed to provide child foster care; and to provide guidance to a mandatory reporter in associating sexual orientation or gender identity change efforts with a child with mental injury constituting child abuse.

Full bill text¹

Senate subcommittee

Named February 13, 2020. It hasn’t reported yet.

• Sen. Jeff Edler R
• Sen. Joe Bolkcom D
• Sen. Mark Costello REmail

Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part

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