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Senate Bill S9063

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Includes avoidant/restrictive food intake disorders as eating disorders for the purposes of mental health

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2025-S9063 - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §30.02, Ment Hyg L; amd §207, Pub Health L

2025-S9063 - Summary

Includes avoidant/restrictive food intake disorders as eating disorders for the purposes of mental health.

2025-S9063 - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9063 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9063
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 28, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- 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 and the  public  health  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:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 30.02 of the mental hygiene law,
 as  added  by section 9 of part AA of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a) "Eating disorder" is defined to include, but not  be  limited  to,
 conditions  such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia [and], binge eating disor-
 der AND AVOIDANT/RESTRICTIVE FOOD INTAKE DISORDER, identified as such in
 the [ICD-9-CM] MOST CURRENT EDITION OF THE International  Classification
 of  Disease  or [the most current edition of the] Diagnostic and Statis-
 tical Manual of Mental Disorders, or other  medical  and  mental  health
 diagnostic references generally accepted for standard use by the medical
 and mental health fields.
   §  2.  Paragraph  (j)  of  subdivision  1 of section 207 of the public
 health law, as added by chapter 360 of the laws of 2014, is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   (j)  The  eating  disorders  awareness and prevention program shall be
 designed to promote the awareness of  eating  disorders  AS  DEFINED  IN
 SECTION  30.02 OF THE MENTAL HYGIENE LAW and available services, as well
 as to prevent and reduce the incidence and prevalence of  eating  disor-
 ders, especially among children and adolescents.
   § 3.  This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14438-01-6

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2025-S9063A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §30.02, Ment Hyg L; amd §207, Pub Health L

2025-S9063A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes avoidant/restrictive food intake disorders as eating disorders for the purposes of mental health.

2025-S9063A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9063A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  9063--A
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 28, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. ADDABBO, FERNANDEZ, GIANARIS, GOUNARDES, LIU, MARTI-
   NEZ,  MAY,  MYRIE, PARKER, RAMOS, SALAZAR, SEPULVEDA, STAVISKY -- read
   twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  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:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 30.02 of the mental hygiene law,
 as added by section 9 of part AA of chapter 56 of the laws of  2020,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a)  "Eating  disorder"  is defined to include, but not be limited to,
 conditions such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia [and], binge eating  disor-
 der AND AVOIDANT/RESTRICTIVE FOOD INTAKE DISORDER, identified as such in
 the  [ICD-9-CM] MOST CURRENT EDITION OF THE International Classification
 of Disease or [the most current edition of the] Diagnostic  and  Statis-
 tical  Manual  of  Mental  Disorders, or other medical and mental health
 diagnostic references generally accepted for standard use by the medical
 and mental health fields.
   § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14438-03-6

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