Bill Text: NY S06446 | 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 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-31 - referred to ways and means [S06446 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06446-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6446--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 29, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. REICHLIN-MELNICK -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --  recom-
          mitted  to  the  Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
          sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        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.