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119-hres-1365119th Congress

Recognizing Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) as a serious feeding and eating disorder and acknowledging the urgent need to advance awareness, early identification, research, and equitable access to care.

Sponsored By: Representative Velázquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]

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Summary

Would recognize Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) as a serious feeding and eating disorder. The resolution would urge earlier screening, better clinical training, school accommodations, and expansion of community multidisciplinary services to detect and treat ARFID sooner.

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  • Families and children: ARFID often appears in early childhood and can persist without timely care, leading to severe nutritional deficiencies, impaired growth, dependence on enteral feeding, and marked psychosocial disruption. The resolution would note children with ARFID are about 14 times more likely to have autism.
  • Health care providers: It would urge routine screening during well-child and primary care visits, more clinical training, and clearer referral pathways to multidisciplinary feeding, nutrition, and behavioral specialists.
  • Schools and educators: It would call for appropriate accommodations and supports in school meal environments to help affected students.
  • Community providers: It would support expanding community-based feeding therapy, nutrition services, speech and occupational therapy, and behavioral health care to improve equitable access.

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Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Velázquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]

NY • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20]

    NY • D

    Sponsored 6/11/2026

  • Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]

    DC • D

    Sponsored 6/11/2026

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