A 9600: Includes avoidant/restrictive food intake disorders as eating disorders for the purposes of mental health.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9600  IN ASSEMBLY January 21, 2026 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAJKUMAR -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee 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: 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. Paragraph (j) of subdivision 1 of section 207 of the public 13 health law, as added by chapter 360 of the laws of 2014, is amended to 14 read as follows: 15 (j) The eating disorders awareness and prevention program shall be 16 designed to promote the awareness of eating disorders as defined in 17 section 30.02 of the mental hygiene law and available services, as well 18 as to prevent and reduce the incidence and prevalence of eating disor- 19 ders, especially among children and adolescents. 20 § 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