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117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3686 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide education and training 

on eating disorders for health care providers and communities, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

FEBRUARY 17, 2022 

Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself, Mrs. CAPITO, Ms. BALDWIN, and Mr. TILLIS) 

introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 

A BILL 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide education 

and training on eating disorders for health care providers 

and communities, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Anna Westin Legacy 

5 Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. MAINTAINING EDUCATION AND TRAINING ON EAT2 ING DISORDERS. 

3 Subpart 3 of part B of title V of the Public Health 

4 Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290bb–31 et seq.) is amended by 

5 adding at the end the following: 

6 ‘‘SEC. 520N. CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FOR EATING DIS7 ORDERS FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING ON 

8 EATING DISORDERS. 

9 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting through 

10 the Assistant Secretary, shall maintain, directly or by 

11 grant or contract, the Center of Excellence for Eating Dis12 orders (referred to in this section as the ‘Center’) to im13 prove the identification of, interventions for, and treat14 ment of eating disorders in a manner that is culturally 

15 and linguistically appropriate. 

16 ‘‘(b) ACTIVITIES.—The Center operated pursuant to 

17 subsection (a)— 

18 ‘‘(1) shall— 

19 ‘‘(A) provide training and technical assist20 ance for frontline health care providers and 

21 frontline community professionals to carry out 

22 screening, brief intervention, and referral to 

23 treatment for individuals experiencing, or at 

24 risk for, eating disorders; 

25 ‘‘(B) in carrying out subparagraph (A), de26 velop adaptive training models for frontline 


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1 health care providers and frontline community 

2 professionals to carry out screening, brief inter3 vention, and referral to treatment for children 

4 and marginalized populations experiencing, or 

5 at risk for, eating disorders; 

6 ‘‘(C) provide technical assistance to other 

7 centers of excellence, technical assistance cen8 ters, and psychiatric consultation lines of the 

9 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 

10 Administration or the Health Resources and 

11 Services Administration on eating disorder 

12 identification, intervention, and referral for 

13 treatment; and 

14 ‘‘(D) coordinate with the Director of the 

15 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and 

16 the Administrator of the Health Resources and 

17 Services Administration to disseminate training 

18 to frontline health care providers and frontline 

19 community professionals; and 

20 ‘‘(2) may— 

21 ‘‘(A) coordinate with electronic health 

22 record systems for the integration of protocols 

23 pertaining to screening, brief intervention, and 

24 referral to treatment for individuals experi25 encing, or at risk for, eating disorders; 


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1 ‘‘(B) develop adaptive training models for 

2 frontline health care providers and frontline 

3 community professionals to carry out screening, 

4 brief intervention, and referral to treatment for 

5 Members of the Armed Forces and veterans ex6 periencing, or at risk for, eating disorders; and 

7 ‘‘(C) consult with the Secretary of Defense 

8 and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on pre9 vention, identification, intervention for, and 

10 treatment of eating disorders. 

11 ‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—To 

12 carry out this section, there is authorized to be appro13 priated $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 

14 2027.’’. 

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