The Governor of Utah, Gary Herbert, implemented a ban on conversion therapy on Tuesday, making Utah the nineteenth state to ban the practice.
Herbert first proposed the rule in November 2019, basing it off of HB 399. The law failed to pass last year after conservative members of the legislature amended the bill so much that even Representative Craig Hall, the bill’s sponsor, stopped supporting it. Utah is the first state to implement a ban on conversion therapy with a Republican governor and Republican control of both houses of the legislature. Critics expect push back on the new rule.
