AN ACT relating to healthcare services and declaring an emergency.

This law protects mental health care professionals, institutions, and religious clergy from discrimination for providing certain counseling services, and protects parents and guardians who consent to their child receiving those services. It also bars licensing and hiring authorities from investigating or reporting providers solely because they offer these counseling services. People who are harmed by a violation of this law may sue in court, and the law took effect immediately upon passage. Who it may affect: mental health counselors and therapists, religious clergy, mental health care facilities, licensing boards, and parents or guardians of minors seeking these counseling services.

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