Bill Title: As enacted, declares that no person providing counseling or therapy services will be required to counsel or serve a client as to goals, outcomes, or behaviors that conflict with the sincerely held principles of the counselor or therapist; requires such counselor or therapist to refer the client to another counselor or therapist; creates immunity for such action; maintains liability for counselors who will not counsel a client based on the counselor's religious beliefs when the individual seeking or undergoing the counseling is in imminent danger of harming themselves or others. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 63.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 23)

Status: (Passed) 2016-05-02 - Comp. became Pub. Ch. 926 [HB1840 Detail]

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Note: Tennessee does not provide sufficient information to determine typical named revision of bills. Therefore only drafts are captured, the highest order draft will always be the current version.

Bill Drafts

Revision	Date	Format	Source	View
Draft (#2)	2016-02-01	PDF	Link	View (#2)
Draft (#1)	2016-01-19	PDF	Link	View (#1)

Amendments

Amendment	Date	Disposition	Format	Source	View
No bill amendments currently on file for Tennessee HB1840

Supplemental Documents

Title	Description	Date	Format	Source	View
No supplemental documents for Tennessee HB1840 currently on file.