Senate Bill S9083

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the definition of an eating disorder

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S9083 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2799-e, Pub Health L

2017-S9083 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Defines an eating disorder so as to include pica, rumination disorder, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, other specified feeding or eating disorder, and any other eating disorder contained in the most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association.

2017-S9083 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S9083 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9083
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 15, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the definition of
   an eating disorder
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 2799-e of the public health law,
 as added by chapter 114 of the laws of  2004,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  "Eating  disorder"  is defined to include[, but not be limited to,
 conditions such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia and binge eating  disorder,
 identified  as  such  in  the  ICD-9-CM  International Classification of
 Disease or the most current edition of the  Diagnostic  and  Statistical
 Manual  of Mental Disorders, or other medical and mental health diagnos-
 tic references generally accepted for standard use by  the  medical  and
 mental  health  fields]  PICA, RUMINATION DISORDER, AVOIDANT/RESTRICTIVE
 FOOD INTAKE DISORDER, ANOREXIA NERVOSA, BULIMIA  NERVOSA,  BINGE  EATING
 DISORDER,  OTHER  SPECIFIED  FEEDING  OR EATING DISORDERS, AND ANY OTHER
 EATING DISORDER CONTAINED IN THE MOST RECENT VERSION OF  THE  DIAGNOSTIC
 AND  STATISTICAL  MANUAL  OF  MENTAL DISORDERS PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN
 PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16320-01-8

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