STATE OF NEW YORK
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3452
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, MILLMAN, JAFFEE, O'DONNELL, GOTTFRIED,
MAISEL, JOHN, BING, ROSENTHAL, CLARK, PHEFFER -- Multi-Sponsored by --
M. of A. FARRELL, GALEF, LANCMAN, V. LOPEZ, PEOPLES, REILLY, SWEENEY,
TOWNS, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Banks
AN ACT to amend the banking law, in relation to allowing credit unions
to offer membership to the domestic partners of persons otherwise
eligible for membership in such credit union
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph (d) of subdivision 2 of section
2 451 of the banking law, as amended by chapter 660 of the laws of 2004,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 (1) in each instance where a person is a member or is directly eligi-
5 ble for membership, members of his or her immediate family or household
6 shall be eligible for membership. For the purposes of this subparagraph,
7 "immediate family" means a person's spouse or domestic partner, and
8 their lineal ancestors and descendants, including persons so related by
9 adoption, siblings, stepparents, stepchildren, and stepsiblings; and
10 "household" means persons living in the same residence and maintaining a
11 single economic unit;
12 § 2. Section 451 of the banking law is amended by adding a new subdi-
13 vision 18 to read as follows:
14 18. For the purposes of this section, "domestic partner" means a
15 person who, with respect to another person:
16 (a) is formally a party in a domestic partnership or similar relation-
17 ship with the other person, entered into pursuant to the laws of the
18 United States or of any state, local or foreign jurisdiction, or regis-
19 tered as the domestic partner of the other person with any registry
20 maintained by the employer of either party or any state, municipality,
21 or foreign jurisdiction; or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (b) is formally recognized as a beneficiary or covered person under
2 the other person's employment benefits or health insurance; or
3 (c) is dependent or mutually interdependent on the other person for
4 support, as evidenced by the totality of the circumstances indicating a
5 mutual intent to be domestic partners including but not limited to:
6 common ownership or joint leasing of real or personal property; common
7 householding, shared income or shared expenses; children in common;
8 signs of intent to marry or become domestic partners under paragraph (a)
9 or (b) of this subdivision; or the length of this personal relationship
10 of the persons.
11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
