the activities of Centers of Excellence and the 
submission of such reports to the Director. 
‘‘(C) 
COLLECTION
AND
STORAGE
OF 
DATA.—The Director of the National Institute 
of Mental Health shall establish and fund 
mechanisms and entities for collecting, storing, 
and coordinating data collected by Centers of 
Excellence and data generated from public and 
private research partnerships. 
‘‘(6) ORGANIZATION.—Each Center of Excel-
lence shall use the facilities of a single institution, 
or be formed from a consortium of cooperating insti-
tutions, meeting such requirements as may be pre-
scribed by the Director of NIH. 
‘‘(7) NUMBER; DURATION; ADDITIONAL PERI-
ODS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Director of NIH 
shall award grants and contracts to not fewer 
than 3 entities under paragraph (1). 
‘‘(B) DURATION.—Except as provided in 
subparagraph (C), a grant or contract awarded 
under paragraph (1) shall not exceed a period 
of 5 years. 
‘‘(C) ADDITIONAL PERIODS.— 
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‘‘(i) EXTENSION.—The period of a 
grant or contract awarded under para-
graph (1) may be extended one or more 
additional periods not exceeding a total of 
5 years if the operations of the Center of 
Excellence involved have been reviewed by 
an appropriate technical and scientific peer 
review group (including investigators from 
the field of eating disorders) established by 
the Director of NIH and the group has 
recommended to the Director that such pe-
riod should be extended. 
‘‘(ii) AMOUNT.—The amount of any 
grant or contract under paragraph (1) for 
an additional period described in clause (i) 
shall not exceed $2,000,000 per fiscal year. 
‘‘(D) PUBLIC INPUT.—In carrying out this 
section, the Director of NIH shall provide for a 
means through which the public can obtain in-
formation on the existing and planned pro-
grams and activities of the National Institutes 
of Health with respect to eating disorders and 
through which the Director can receive com-
ments from the public regarding such programs 
and activities. 
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‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, 
$20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018. 
Amounts appropriated under this subsection shall be in 
addition to any other amounts appropriated for such pur-
pose. 
‘‘SEC. 499C. COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMS OF RESEARCH IN 
EATING DISORDERS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of NIH, acting 
through the Director of the National Institute of Mental 
Health, the Director of the National Institute of Diabetes 
and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the Director of the 
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child 
Health and Human Development, the Director of the Of-
fice of Research on Women’s Health, and any other agen-
cies or offices of the National Institutes of Health that 
the Director determines appropriate, in consultation with 
leading eating disorders researchers and clinicians, shall 
award grants and contracts to public or nonprofit private 
entities to pay all or part of the cost of planning, estab-
lishing, improving, and providing basic operating support 
for collaborative programs of research in eating disorders. 
‘‘(b) RESEARCH.—Each program established under 
subsection (a)— 
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‘‘(1) shall conduct basic research, clinical re-
search, or both into eating disorders; and 
‘‘(2) should conduct investigations into the 
cause, diagnosis, early detection, prevention and 
treatment of and recovery from eating disorders. 
‘‘(c) COORDINATION OF PROGRAMS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director of NIH shall, 
as appropriate, provide for the coordination of infor-
mation among programs established under sub-
section (a), and Centers of Excellence receiving 
funding under section 499B, and ensure regular 
communication between such programs and Centers. 
‘‘(2) PERIODIC
REPORTS.—The Director of 
NIH may require the periodic preparation of reports 
on the activities of the programs established under 
subsection (a) and the submission of such reports to 
the Director. 
‘‘(3) COLLECTION AND STORAGE OF DATA.— 
The Director of NIH shall establish and fund mech-
anisms and entities for collecting, storing, and co-
ordinating data collected by the programs estab-
lished under subsection (a) and data generated from 
public and private research partnerships. 
‘‘(d) ORGANIZATION.—Each program that receives 
funding under subsection (a) shall be formed from a con-
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sortium of cooperating institutions, meeting such require-
ments as may be prescribed by the Director of NIH. 
‘‘(e) NUMBER AND DURATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall provide 
for the establishment of not fewer than 4 programs 
under subsection (a). 
‘‘(2) DURATION.—Except as provided in para-
graph (3), a grant or contract awarded under sub-
section (a) shall not exceed a period of 5 years. 
‘‘(3) ADDITIONAL PERIODS.— 
‘‘(A) EXTENSION.—The period of a grant 
or contract awarded under subsection (a) may 
be extended for one or more additional periods 
not exceeding 5 years if the operations of the 
program involved have been reviewed by an ap-
propriate technical and scientific peer review 
group established by the Director of NIH and 
the group has recommended to the Director 
that such period should be extended. 
‘‘(B) AMOUNT.—The amount of any grant 
or contract under subsection (a) for an addi-
tional period described in subparagraph (A) 
shall not exceed $2,000,000 per fiscal year. 
‘‘(f) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall be construed as precluding or otherwise affecting 
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funding for any research on eating disorders in addition 
to the research funded under this section. 
‘‘(g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, 
$20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018. 
Amounts appropriated under this subsection shall be in 
addition to any other amounts appropriated for such pur-
pose.’’. 
SEC. 102. EATING DISORDERS SURVEILLANCE AND RE-
SEARCH PROGRAM. 
Title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
241 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end thereof the 
following: 
‘‘PART W—PROGRAMS RELATING TO EATING 
DISORDERS 
‘‘SEC. 399OO. EATING DISORDERS SURVEILLANCE AND RE-
SEARCH PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS SURVEILLANCE 
PROGRAM.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting 
through the Director of the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention and in consultation with 
leading eating disorders researchers and clinicians— 
‘‘(A) shall provide for the collection, anal-
ysis, and reporting of epidemiological data on 
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eating disorders through the existing surveil-
lance programs of the Centers, such as the Be-
havioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; 
‘‘(B) shall make recommendations to en-
hance existing surveillance programs of the 
Centers, such as the Behavioral Risk Factor 
Surveillance System, to more accurately collect 
epidemiological data on disordered eating and 
eating disorders; 
‘‘(C) may award grants and cooperative 
agreements and may provide direct technical as-
sistance to eligible entities for the collection, 
analysis, and reporting of such data; and 
‘‘(D) shall examine and improve require-
ments for reporting deaths on death certificates 
to accurately account for those cases in which 
an eating disorder is the underlying or contrib-
uting cause of death. 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive a 
grant or cooperative agreement under paragraph 
(1)(C), an entity shall be a public or nonprofit pri-
vate entity (including a health department of a State 
or political subdivisions of a State, a university, or 
any other educational institution), and submit to the 
Secretary an application at such time, in such man-
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ner, and containing such information as the Sec-
retary may require. 
‘‘(b) CENTER
OF EATING DISORDERS EPIDEMI-
OLOGY.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting 
through the Director of the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention, shall establish a Center of 
Eating Disorders Epidemiology for the purpose of 
collecting and analyzing information on— 
‘‘(A) the number, incidence, incidence 
trends over time, correlates, mortality, and 
causes of eating disorders; 
‘‘(B) the effects of eating disorders on 
quality of life, including disability adjusted life 
years (DALY) and quality adjusted life years 
(QALY); and 
‘‘(C) economic analysis of the costs of eat-
ing disorders in the United States, including 
years of productive life lost, missed days of 
work, reduced work productivity, costs of med-
ical and mental health treatment, prescriptions, 
other medications, hospitalizations, costs of 
medical and psychiatric comorbidities, costs to 
family, and costs to society. 
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‘‘(2) GRANTS; COOPERATIVE
AGREEMENTS.— 
The Center of Eating Disorders Epidemiology under 
paragraph (1) shall be established and operated 
through the awarding of grants or cooperative agree-
ments to one or more public or nonprofit private en-
tities that conduct research, which may include a 
university or other educational entity. 
‘‘(3) REQUIREMENTS.—To be eligible to receive 
a grant or cooperative agreement under paragraph 
(2), an entity shall submit to the Secretary an appli-
cation containing such agreements and information 
as the Secretary may require, including an agree-
ment that the Center of Eating Disorders Epidemi-
ology will operate in accordance with the following: 
‘‘(A) The Center will collect, analyze, and 
report eating disorders data according to guide-
lines prescribed by the Director of the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention, after con-
sultation with relevant State and local public 
health officials, private sector eating disorder 
researchers and clinicians, and advocates for 
those with eating disorders. 
‘‘(B) The Center will assist with the devel-
opment and coordination of State eating dis-
orders surveillance efforts within a region. 
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‘‘(C) The Center will identify eligible cases 
and controls through its surveillance systems 
and conduct research into factors which may 
cause or increase the risk of eating disorders. 
‘‘(D) The Center will develop or extend an 
area of special research expertise (including ge-
netics, environmental exposures, and other rel-
evant research specialty areas). 
‘‘(c) 
CLEARINGHOUSE.—The 
Secretary, 
acting 
through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention and in consultation with leading eating 
disorders researchers and clinicians, shall carry out the 
following: 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall es-
tablish a clearinghouse within the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention for the collection and 
storage of data generated from the monitoring pro-
grams established under this section and part J of 
title IV. Through the clearinghouse, the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention shall serve as the 
coordinating agency for eating disorders surveillance 
activities. The functions of such clearinghouse shall 
include facilitating the coordination of research and 
policy development relating to the prevention, treat-
ment, and epidemiology of eating disorders. 
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‘‘(2) FACILITATION OF RESEARCH.—The Sec-
retary shall provide for the establishment of a pro-
gram under which samples of tissues and genetic 
and other biological materials that are of use in re-
search on eating disorders are donated, collected, 
preserved, and made available for such research. 
Such program shall be carried out in accordance 
with accepted scientific and medical standards for 
the donation, collection, and preservation of such 
samples, and shall be conducted so that the tissues 
and other materials saved, as well as any database 
compiled from such tissues and materials, are avail-
able to researchers at a reasonable cost. 
‘‘(3) COORDINATION.—The Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention shall coordinate research 
and surveillance activities of such Centers with the 
National Institutes of Health, other appropriate 
Federal agencies, and interested nonprofit private 
entities, which shall be updated as determined ap-
propriate by the Secretary. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘eating 
disorder’ includes anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge 
eating disorder, and eating disorders not otherwise speci-
fied (EDNOS), as defined in the fifth edition of ‘Diag-
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nostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’ or, if 
applicable, the most recent successor edition. 
‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, 
$2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018.’’. 
TITLE II—EDUCATION AND 
PREVENTION 
SEC. 201. STUDY OF MANDATORY BMI REPORTING IN 
SCHOOL. 
Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention, in consultation with the Secretary of Edu-
cation and leading eating disorders researchers and clini-
cians, shall conduct a study and submit a report to the 
Congress on— 
(1) measuring the body mass index (in this sec-
tion referred to as ‘‘BMI’’) of students for those 
schools (at any level including pre-schools, kinder-
gartens, elementary schools, secondary schools, and 
institutions of higher education) that are measuring 
the BMI of students; 
(2) the impacts (both positive and negative) on 
students of such measures, including unhealthy 
weight control behaviors, perceptions of body image, 
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eating disorder symptoms, and the incidence of teas-
ing or bullying based on body size; and 
(3) the impacts (both positive and negative) of 
reporting the results of such measures to the par-
ents of such students. 
SEC. 202. TRAINING AND EDUCATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, acting through the Director of the Office 
on Women’s Health of the Department of Health and 
Human Services and in consultation with the Secretary 
of Education and with the Task Force for Health Profes-
sions established under section 399Z(b) of the Public 
Health Service Act (as added by section 203(a)(2) of this 
Act), shall— 
(1) expand the BodyWise Handbook and re-
lated fact sheets and resource lists available on the 
public Internet site of the National Women’s Health 
Information Center sponsored by the Office on 
Women’s Health, to include— 
(A) updated findings and conclusions as 
needed; and 
(B) thorough information about eating dis-
orders relating to males as well as females; 
(2) incorporate, as appropriate, information 
from such BodyWise Handbook and related facts 
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sheets and resource lists into the curriculum of the 
BodyWorks obesity prevention program developed by 
the Office on Women’s Health and training modules 
used in such obesity prevention program; and 
(3) promote and make publicly available 
(whether through a public Internet site or other 
method that does not impose a fee on users) the 
BodyWise Handbook and related fact sheets and re-
source lists, as updated under paragraph (1), and 
the BodyWorks obesity prevention program, as up-
dated under paragraph (2), including for purposes of 
educating universities and nonprofit entities on eat-
ing disorders. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000 to carry out 
subsection (a). 
SEC. 203. HEALTH PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAIN-
ING. 
Section 399Z of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 280h–3) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (b) as sub-
section (d); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (a) the fol-
lowing new subsections: 
‘‘(b) TASK FORCE ON EATING DISORDERS.— 
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‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary, acting 
through the Administrator of the Health Resources 
and Services Administration and one or more of the 
Centers of Excellence receiving funds under section 
499B(b), shall establish a Task Force for Health 
Professions (in this subsection referred to as the 
‘task force’) comprised of experts in the field of eat-
ing disorders (including researchers, clinicians, care 
providers, and experts in eating disorders education 
and prevention), individuals with eating disorders, 
and individuals with family members who have eat-
ing disorders. 
‘‘(2) DUTIES.—The task force shall— 
‘‘(A) develop, based on the BodyWise 
Handbook and related fact sheets and resource 
lists available on the public Internet site of the 
National Women’s Health Information Center 
sponsored by the Office on Women’s Health of 
the Department of Health and Human Services 
and updated under section 202(a)(1) of the 
Federal Response to Eliminate Eating Dis-
orders Act of 2013, an evidence-based or 
emerging best-practices training program for 
health professionals on eating disorders; 
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‘‘(B) award grants for implementation of 
such evidence-based training program; and 
‘‘(C) provide training and technical assist-
ance to grant recipients. 
‘‘(3) REPORT.—Not later than 6 years after the 
date of the enactment of this subsection, the task 
force shall submit to the Congress and make publicly 
available a report on the training program developed 
under paragraph (2) and the results achieved 
through grants awarded for implementation of such 
program. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘eating 
disorder’ has the meaning given such term in section 
399OO(d).’’; and 
(3) by amending subsection (d) (as so redesig-
nated) to read as follows: 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated— 
‘‘(1) to carry out subsection (a), $1,000,000 for 
fiscal year 2014 and $500,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2015 through 2018; and 
‘‘(2) to carry out subsection (b), $10,000,000 
for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018.’’. 
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