§ 100930 Religious Healing Exemption

• •Prayer‑based healers are protected from being forced to disclose non‑contagious disease information.
• •No one can require compulsory education, medical exams, or treatment for those healers or the people they treat.
• •The protection applies to any well‑recognized church, sect, denomination, or organization and to certain professionals listed in the Business and Professions Code.

A pastor prays for a member who has a broken arm. The state cannot demand the pastor tell the doctor exactly what the pastor sees in the prayer session, nor can the state force the member to go to a forced medical exam or treatment because of the prayer.

Because the pastor is using prayer as a healing method for a recognized faith, the law protects them from being compelled to give non‑infectious health info or to require any compulsory medical actions.