BILL NUMBER: AB 2199	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 14, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonnie Lowenthal

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to  repeal   amend  Section 8050
of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2199, as amended, Bonnie Lowenthal. Sexual deviation: research.

   Existing law requires the State Department of Mental Health,
acting through the superintendent of the Langly Porter Clinic, to
plan, conduct, and cause to be conducted scientific research into the
causes and cures of sexual deviation, including deviations conducive
to sex crimes against children, and the causes and cures of
homosexuality, and into methods of identifying potential sex
offenders.
   This bill would  repeal those provisions   ,
instead, require the department to plan, conduct, and cause to be
conducted scientific research into the prevention of sex crimes
against children and into methods of identifying those who commit
sexual offenses  .
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 8050 of the   Welfare
and Institutions Code  is amended to read: 
   8050.  The State Department of Mental Health  , acting
through the superintendent of the Langley Porter Clinic, 
shall plan, conduct,  and   or  cause to be
conducted scientific research into the  causes and cures of
sexual deviation, including deviations conducive to 
prevention of  sex crimes against children  , and the
causes and cures of homosexuality, and into methods of identifying
potential sex offenders   and into methods of
identifying those who commit sexual offenses  . 
  SECTION 1.    Section 8050 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code is repealed.