Bill Text: NY A05294 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes the eating disorders awareness and prevention program in the department of health.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 42-13)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-23 - signed chap.360 [A05294 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A05294-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        5294--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 22, 2013
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       Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, MILLMAN, JAFFEE, PAULIN, WEPRIN, CRESPO,
         THIELE,  ROBINSON,  CLARK, BENEDETTO, ZEBROWSKI, MOYA, GANTT, SCHIMEL,
         FINCH, TITUS, GALEF, ENGLEBRIGHT,  HEASTIE,  LUPARDO,  MAGEE,  MARKEY,
         SCARBOROUGH,  COOK,  HOOPER, RUSSELL, LENTOL, KELLNER, RAMOS, PRETLOW,
         DINOWITZ, MOSLEY,  PERRY,  MAGNARELLI,  ROBERTS,  OTIS,  MONTESANO  --
         Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, BRENNAN, DUPREY,
         FITZPATRICK, GARBARINO, GOTTFRIED, GRAF, HAWLEY, HEVESI, KEARNS, KOLB,
         PALMESANO, RIVERA, SWEENEY, TENNEY, WALTER, WEISENBERG  --  read  once
         and  referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Commit-
         tee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --  committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee
       AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing the
         eating disorders awareness and prevention program
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 207 of the public health law is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph (j) to read as follows:
    3    (J) THE EATING DISORDERS AWARENESS AND  PREVENTION  PROGRAM  SHALL  BE
    4  DESIGNED  TO  PROMOTE  THE  AWARENESS  OF EATING DISORDERS AND AVAILABLE
    5  SERVICES, AS WELL AS TO PREVENT AND REDUCE THE INCIDENCE AND  PREVALENCE
    6  OF EATING DISORDERS, ESPECIALLY AMONG CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS.
    7    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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