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Committee approves bill criminalizing sexual contact by clergy in therapeutic settings
Assembly Business and Professions Committee · April 21, 2026
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Summary
AB 17 39 would extend criminal prohibitions on sexual contact to clergy who provide therapeutic counseling. Survivors and researchers testified in support; the committee passed the bill as amended to appropriations.
The committee voted to pass AB 17 39 as amended to the Appropriations Committee. The bill would make it a crime for a member of the clergy to engage in sexual contact with a current or former counselee when the clergy member is providing therapeutic counseling, aligning those rules with existing law that covers…
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