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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 23-0)

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

Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]

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Voting Records

Chamber	Vote	Date	Yea	Nay	NV	Abs	Total	Result	Source	View
House	HEALTH COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee	2016-03-23	11	5	0	0	16	Passed	Link	View

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