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This bill establishes a civil cause of action for individuals who have suffered damages from "sexual orientation or gender identity change efforts," which are defined as practices by a mental health professional aimed at directing a patient toward a predetermined sexual orientation or gender identity outcome, excluding certain types of supportive or nondirective counseling. It allows individuals to sue mental health professionals, or entities that employed or supervised them, for damages including economic losses, pain and suffering, emotional distress, and attorney fees, with specific provisions for proving causation through expert testimony and other evidence. The bill also sets extended statutes of limitations for these claims, allowing lawsuits to be filed up to 22 years after a minor reaches adulthood, 10 years after the last treatment for adults, or 5 years after the injury is discovered, and it amends existing law to ensure these new provisions do not conflict with statutes of limitations for medical malpractice claims. Finally, the bill declares an emergency, meaning it will take effect immediately upon becoming law, to address what is considered a paramount interest in protecting the population from harm.

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