[Carry_Okie]

In Californication now, you may not counsel a “homosexual questioning youth” to reconsider heterosexuality (at least until age 18).

I doubt that this restriction applies to any but public employees.

The rest of your post is on point.

[a fool in paradise]

California BAN on conversion therapy for anyone UNDER 18.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/us/day-in-court-for-california-law-banning-conversion-therapy.html?_r=0

“The law, adopted last year, was the first of its kind and an unusual effort to regulate a form of talk therapy. It bars licensed therapists from trying to change the sexual orientation of people under the age of 18.”

[P-Marlowe]

I doubt that this restriction applies to any but public employees.

It applies to all licensed mental health professionals. Any such counseling could result in a loss of the professional license.

[ilovesarah2012]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation that makes California the first state to ban a controversial form of psychotherapy that’s aimed at making gay teenagers straight.

Effective Jan. 1, mental health practitioners are prohibited from performing sexual orientation change efforts — known as reparative or conversion therapy — for anyone under 18.

The therapies “have no basis in science or medicine and they will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery,” Brown said in a statement.

Mainstream associations representing psychiatrists and psychologists have dismissed reparative therapy in recent decades. A number of mental health associations in California — including the state’s Board of Behavorial Sciences, the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and the California Psychological Association — supported the legislation.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57523211/california-bans-gay-cure-therapy/