---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1090a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1090a"
heading: "Identifying and treating eating disorders"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1090a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 55 — Medical and Dental Care"
---

# §1090a. Identifying and treating eating disorders

- (a) **Identification, Treatment, and Rehabilitation.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense, and the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, shall prescribe regulations, implement procedures using each practical and available method, and provide necessary [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) to identify, treat, and rehabilitate members of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) who have an eating disorder.
- (b) **Facilities Available.—**
  - (1) In this section, the term “necessary [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2)” [includes](/usc/10/101.md?p=g-4) [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) that provide the services specified in [section 1079(r)(1) of this title](/usc/10/1079.md?p=r-1).
  - (2) Consistent with [section 1079(r)(1)(B) of this title](/usc/10/1079.md?p=r-1-B), residential services shall be provided to a member pursuant to this section only if the member has a primary diagnosis of an eating disorder and treatment at such [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) is medically indicated for treatment of that eating disorder.
- (c) **Eating Disorder Defined.—** In this section, the term “eating disorder” has the meaning given that term in [section 1079(r) of this title](/usc/10/1079.md?p=r).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title VII, § 701(c)(1)(B), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 1778; amended Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title XVIII, § 1801(a)(13), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 684.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1090a was renumbered section 1090b of this title.

### Amendments

2023—Pub. L. 118–31 struck out period at end of section catchline.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 2022, see section 701(d) of Pub. L. 117–81, set out as an Effective Date of 2021 Amendment note under section 1079 of this title.