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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9083
IN SENATE
June 15, 2018
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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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2799-e of the public health law,
2 as added by chapter 114 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. "Eating disorder" is defined to include[, but not be limited to,
5 conditions such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia and binge eating disorder,
6 identified as such in the ICD-9-CM International Classification of
7 Disease or the most current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical
8 Manual of Mental Disorders, or other medical and mental health diagnos-
9 tic references generally accepted for standard use by the medical and
10 mental health fields] pica, rumination disorder, avoidant/restrictive
11 food intake disorder, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating
12 disorder, other specified feeding or eating disorders, and any other
13 eating disorder contained in the most recent version of the Diagnostic
14 and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American
15 Psychiatric Association.
16 § 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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