The bill prohibits a licensed physician specializing in psychiatry or a licensed, certified, or registered mental health care provider from engaging in conversion therapy with a patient under 18 years of age. A licensee who engages in these practices is subject to disciplinary action by the appropriate licensing board. The bill also makes the advertising or practice of conversion therapy by a physician or mental health care provider a deceptive trade practice under the Colorado Consumer Protection Act. Conversion therapy means efforts to change an individual's sexual orientation, including efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attraction or feelings toward individuals of the same sex.
Year
2019
Current status
- Sent to the Governor (05/09/2019)
- House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass (04/05/2019)
- House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over to 04/01/2019 (03/28/2019)
- Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments (03/22/2019)
- Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor(03/21/19)
- Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole (03/18/19)
- Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs (02/20/2019)
- House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments (02-19-19)
- House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee (02-15-19)
- House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole (02-13-19)
- Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services (01/24/2019)
