STATE OF NEW YORK
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9600--A
IN ASSEMBLY
January 21, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. RAJKUMAR, ROSENTHAL, HEVESI, RAGA, GONZALEZ-RO-
JAS, VALDEZ, CRUZ, MORENO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Mental Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to including
avoidant/restrictive food intake disorders as eating disorders for the
purposes of mental health
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 30.02 of the mental hygiene law,
2 as added by section 9 of part AA of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) "Eating disorder" is defined to include, but not be limited to,
5 conditions such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia [and], binge eating disor-
6 der and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, identified as such in
7 the [ICD-9-CM] most current edition of the International Classification
8 of Disease or [the most current edition of the] Diagnostic and Statis-
9 tical Manual of Mental Disorders, or other medical and mental health
10 diagnostic references generally accepted for standard use by the medical
11 and mental health fields.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14438-02-6
