2018 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 8 - The Professions
Article 131-A - Definitions of Professional Misconduct Applicable to Physicians, Physician's Assistants and Specialist's Assistants
6531-A - Additional Definition of Professional Misconduct; Mental Health Professionals.

§  6531-a.  Additional  definition  of professional misconduct; mental
  health professionals. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section:
a.  "Mental  health  professional"  means  a  person  subject  to  the
  provisions of article one hundred thirty-one of this title.
b.  "Sexual  orientation  change  efforts" (i) means any practice by a
  mental health professional that seeks to change an  individual's  sexual
  orientation, including, but not limited to, efforts to change behaviors,
  gender identity, or gender expressions, or to eliminate or reduce sexual
  or romantic attractions or feelings towards individuals of the same sex;
  and (ii) shall not include counseling for a person seeking to transition
  from  one  gender  to  another,  or  psychotherapies  that:  (A) provide
  acceptance, support and understanding of patients or the facilitation of
  patients'  coping,  social  support,  and   identity   exploration   and
  development,   including  sexual  orientation-neutral  interventions  to
  prevent or address unlawful conduct or unsafe sexual practices; and  (B)
  do not seek to change sexual orientation.
2.   It   shall   be  professional  misconduct  for  a  mental  health
  professional to engage in sexual orientation  change  efforts  upon  any
  patient  under  the  age  of  eighteen  years,  and  any  mental  health
  professional found  guilty  of  such  misconduct  under  the  procedures
  prescribed  in title two-A of article two of the public health law shall
  be subject to the penalties prescribed in section two  hundred  thirty-a
  of  the  public  health  law, as added by chapter six hundred six of the
  laws of nineteen hundred ninety-one.