Senate Bill S7247

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes the eating disorders in children task force

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Mental Health 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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2023-S7247 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Add §30.07, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S5870
2021-2022: S6446

2023-S7247 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the eating disorders in children task force to study and create a standardized approach to, and develop best practices and guidelines for awareness, recognition, and treatment of eating disorders in children.

2023-S7247 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S7247 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7247
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 19, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to establishing  the
   eating disorders in children task force
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a  new  section
 30.07 to read as follows:
 § 30.07 EATING DISORDERS IN CHILDREN TASK FORCE.
   1. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL CONVENE AN EATING DISORDERS IN CHILDREN TASK
 FORCE  TO  STUDY AND CREATE A STANDARDIZED APPROACH TO, AND DEVELOP BEST
 PRACTICES AND GUIDELINES FOR AWARENESS, RECOGNITION,  AND  TREATMENT  OF
 EATING DISORDERS IN CHILDREN.
   2.  (A) THE TASK FORCE SHALL BE CHAIRED BY THE COMMISSIONER OR BY SUCH
 OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT AS  SHALL  BE  DESIGNATED  BY  THE
 COMMISSIONER.    THE TASK FORCE SHALL CONSIST OF AT LEAST ELEVEN MEMBERS
 APPOINTED BY THE COMMISSIONER. THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE  TASK  FORCE  SHALL
 INCLUDE:  THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH OR THEIR DESIGNEE, THE COMMISSIONER
 OF  MENTAL  HEALTH  OR  THEIR DESIGNEE, THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION OR
 THEIR DESIGNEE, ONE REPRESENTATIVE FROM NEW  YORK  CHAPTER  ONE  OF  THE
 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS, ONE REPRESENTATIVE FROM NEW YORK CHAPTER
 TWO  OF  THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS, ONE REPRESENTATIVE FROM NEW
 YORK CHAPTER THREE OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY  OF  PEDIATRICS,  PHYSICIANS,
 NUTRITIONISTS  AND  MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS WITH DEMONSTRATED EXPER-
 TISE IN TREATING CHILDREN WITH AN EATING DISORDER, AT LEAST  ONE  REPRE-
 SENTATIVE  FROM EACH OF THE COMPREHENSIVE CARE CENTERS FOR EATING DISOR-
 DERS  ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO  THIS  ARTICLE,  ADVOCACY  ORGANIZATIONS
 WORKING  TO  PREVENT AND TREAT EATING DISORDERS, ONE MEMBER FROM THE NEW
 YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION, AND OTHER MEMBERS  DEEMED  NECESSARY
 BY THE COMMISSIONER.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08919-01-3
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