Bill Text: NY A07883 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-23 - amended on third reading (t) 7883b [A07883 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07883-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7883--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 28, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, FERNANDEZ -- read once and referred to
          the  Committee  on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in
          accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the public health 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:

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  2500-l to read as follows:
     3    § 2500-l. Eating disorders in children task force. 1. The commissioner
     4  shall  convene  an  eating disorders in children task force to study and
     5  create a standardized approach to, and develop best practices and guide-
     6  lines for awareness, recognition, and treatment of eating  disorders  in
     7  children.
     8     2. (a) The task force shall be chaired by the commissioner or by such
     9  officer  or  employee  of  the  department as shall be designated by the
    10  commissioner.  The task force shall consist  of  at  least  ten  members
    11  appointed  by  the  commissioner. The membership of the task force shall
    12  include:  the commissioner of health or their designee, the commissioner
    13  of mental health or their designee, the  commissioner  of  education  or
    14  their  designee,  one  representative  from  New York chapter one of the
    15  American Academy of Pediatrics, one representative from New York chapter
    16  two of the American Academy of Pediatrics, one representative  from  New
    17  York chapter  three  of  the American Academy of Pediatrics, physicians,
    18  nutritionists  and  mental health professionals with demonstrated exper-
    19  tise in treating children with an eating disorder, at least  one  repre-
    20  sentative  from each of the comprehensive care centers for eating disor-
    21  ders established pursuant to article thirty of the mental  hygiene  law,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  advocacy  organizations  working  to prevent and treat eating disorders,
     2  and other members deemed necessary by the commissioner.
     3    (b)  The  members  of the task force shall receive no compensation for
     4  their services but shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses
     5  incurred in the performance of their duties.
     6    3. Such task force shall establish recommendations, for use by  pedia-
     7  tric  primary care providers, for best practice protocols and guidelines
     8  for appropriate screening of children for eating disorders,  as  defined
     9  by  subdivision  (a)  of  section  30.02 of the mental hygiene law. Such
    10  recommendations shall incorporate the standards  and  guidelines  estab-
    11  lished  by  the American Academy of Pediatrics, but shall not be limited
    12  to such standards and guidelines.
    13    4. The task force shall further  develop  recommendations  for  educa-
    14  tional   and   informational   materials   for   such   children,  their
    15  parents/guardians, and educators regarding awareness,  recognition,  and
    16  treatment of eating disorders.
    17    5.  The commissioner shall promulgate any rules and regulations neces-
    18  sary to implement the provisions of this section.
    19    6. The task force shall provide an initial  report  to  the  governor,
    20  temporary president of the senate, minority leader of the senate, speak-
    21  er  of  the  assembly, minority leader of the assembly, the chair of the
    22  senate committee on health, the chair of the senate committee on  mental
    23  health, the chair of the senate committee on education, the chair of the
    24  assembly  committee  on  health,  the chair of the assembly committee on
    25  mental health, and the chair of the assembly committee on  education  of
    26  its findings, conclusions, recommendations and activities already under-
    27  taken  by  the  task  force, not later than one year after the effective
    28  date of this section, and shall provide a report every two years  there-
    29  after  with  updated findings, conclusions and recommendations and shall
    30  submit with such biennial  report  legislative  proposals  as  it  deems
    31  necessary to implement its recommendations.
    32    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.