WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 730

practitioners; and generally relating to child abuse and
neglect.

BY repealing

Article - Family Law

Section 5-701(o) and 5-704(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Volume and 1988 Supplement)

BY renumbering

Article - Family Law

Section 5-701(p) and (q) and 5-704(c) and (d), respectively

to be Section 5-701(o) and (p) and 5-704(b) and (c),

respectively
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1984 Volume and 1988 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Family Law

5-701.

[(o) "Pedophilia" means a condition in which a person's
conscious sexual desires and responses are directed, either
partially or exclusively, to children,]

5-704.

[(b). A health practitioner who specializes in the
psychiatric treatment of pedophilia is not required to report
sexual abuse under subsection (a)(l)(i) of this section if:

(1)  the health practitioner's reason to believe that
a child has been subjected to sexual abuse is based exclusively
on a report made to the health practitioner by an individual
stating that the individual sexually abused the child;

(2)  the health practitioner is providing psychiatric
treatment to the individual for the purpose of curing the
individual's pedophilia; and

(3)  the sexual abuse occurred prior to the time that
the individual began the psychiatric treatment with the health
practitioner.]

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