HB 1598-S - DIGEST

(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE)

     Prohibits educational practitioners from using hypnosis or dissociative mental states, including any techniques, curricula, or methods that produce or advocate a dissociative mental state or hypnotic state in which there is a separation or isolation of mental processes in such a way that they become split off from the main personality or lose their normal thought-affect relationship.

     Declares that educational practitioners who use methods or curriculum advocating or producing dissociative states are in violation of professional practices.