Virginia Senate Bill 267 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-01-28 - Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 5-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Conversion therapy prohibited. Prohibits any health care provider or person who performs counseling as part of his training for any profession licensed by a regulatory board of the Department of Health Professions from engaging in conversion therapy with any person under 18 years of age. The bill defines "conversion therapy" as any practice or treatment that seeks to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity, including efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward individuals of the same gender. "Conversion therapy" does not include counseling that provides assistance to a person undergoing gender transition, or counseling that provides acceptance, support, and understanding of a person or facilitates a person's coping, social support, and identity exploration and development, including sexual-orientation-neutral interventions to prevent or address unlawful conduct or unsafe sexual practices, as long as such counseling does not seek to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity.

Conversion therapy; prohibited.

Sen. Rosalyn Dance [D]	Sen. Donald McEachin [D]	Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]	Sen. Barbara Favola [D]
Sen. Mamie Locke [D]	Sen. Richard Saslaw [D]

2016-01-28 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 5-N) (Y: 8 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-01-28	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 5-N)
2016-01-21	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
2016-01-06	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2016-01-06	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101580D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
54	1	2409.5	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+SB267
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB267+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S04V0035+SB0267