Expands eligibility for those who receive awards under crime victims' compensation to include a domestic partner; defines domestic partner; further provides for out-of-pocket loss to include the cost of counseling for surviving family members of homicide victims.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, JAFFEE, PERRY, GOTTFRIED -- Multi-Spon-
sored by -- M. of A. COLTON, JACOBS, MILLMAN, O'DONNELL, SWEENEY,
WEINSTEIN, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to eligibility of domes-
tic partners for compensation from the crime victims' board
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 624 of the execu-
2 tive law, as amended by chapter 233 of the laws of 2012, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (b) a surviving spouse, domestic partner, grandparent, parent, step-
5 parent, guardian, brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, child or
6 stepchild of a victim of a crime who died as a direct result of such
7 crime;
8 § 2. Section 624 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
9 subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
10 1-a. For the purposes of this section, "domestic partner" means a
11 person who, with respect to another person:
12 (a) is formally a party in a domestic partnership or similar relation-
13 ship with the other person, entered into pursuant to the laws of the
14 United States or of any state, local or foreign jurisdiction, or regis-
15 tered as the domestic partner of the other person with any registry
16 maintained by the employer of either party or any state, municipality,
17 or foreign jurisdiction; or
18 (b) is formally recognized as a beneficiary or covered person under
19 the other person's employment benefits or health insurance; or
20 (c) is dependent or mutually interdependent on the other person for
21 support, as evidenced by the totality of the circumstances indicating a
22 mutual intent to be a domestic partner including but not limited to:
23 common ownership or joint leasing of real or personal property; common
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 householding, shared income or shared expenses; children in common;
2 signs of intent to marry or become a domestic partner under paragraph
3 (a) or (b) of this subdivision; or the length of the personal relation-
4 ship of the persons.
5 § 3. Section 626 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
6 subdivision 4 to read as follows:
7 4. Out-of-pocket loss shall also include the cost of counseling for
8 surviving family members of homicide victims who are otherwise eligible
9 pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section six hundred
10 twenty-four of this article.
11 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
12 it shall have become a law.
