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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 1422--A                                            A. 4089--A
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 30, 2009
                                       ___________
 
        IN  SENATE  --  Introduced by Sens. SCHNEIDERMAN, ADAMS, BRESLIN, DUANE,
          KRUEGER, OPPENHEIMER, PARKER, SAMPSON, SAVINO, STAVISKY,  THOMPSON  --
          read  twice  and  ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Crime  Victims,  Crime  and  Correction  --  reported

          favorably  from  said  committee  and  committed  to  the Committee on
          Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
 
        IN  ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, GOTTFRIED, PERRY, SPANO --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CLARK, COLTON, DINOWITZ, JACOBS,  JOHN,
          O'DONNELL, SWEENEY, WEINSTEIN, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
          Committee  on  Governmental  Operations  -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
 
        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 427 of the laws of 1999, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (b) a surviving spouse or domestic partner, grandparent, parent, step-
     5  parent, child or stepchild of a victim of a crime who died as  a  direct
     6  result of such crime;
     7    §  2.  Section  624  of  the  executive law is amended by adding a new
     8  subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     9    1-a. For the purposes of this  section,  "domestic  partner"  means  a
    10  person who, with respect to another person:
    11    (a) is formally a party in a domestic partnership or similar relation-
    12  ship  with  the  other  person, entered into pursuant to the laws of the
    13  United States or of any state, local or foreign jurisdiction, or  regis-
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 1422--A                          2                         A. 4089--A
 
     1  tered  as  the  domestic  partner  of the other person with any registry
     2  maintained by the employer of either party or any  state,  municipality,
     3  or foreign jurisdiction; or
     4    (b)  is  formally  recognized as a beneficiary or covered person under
     5  the other person's employment benefits or health insurance; or
     6    (c) is dependent or mutually interdependent on the  other  person  for
     7  support,  as evidenced by the totality of the circumstances indicating a

     8  mutual intent to be a domestic partner including  but  not  limited  to:
     9  common  ownership  or joint leasing of real or personal property; common
    10  householding, shared income or  shared  expenses;  children  in  common;
    11  signs  of  intent  to marry or become a domestic partner under paragraph
    12  (a) or (b) of this subdivision; or the length of the personal  relation-
    13  ship of the persons.
    14    §  3.  Section  626  of  the  executive law is amended by adding a new
    15  subdivision 4 to read as follows:
    16    4. Out-of-pocket loss shall also include the cost  of  counseling  for
    17  surviving  family members of homicide victims who are otherwise eligible
    18  pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision  one  of  section  six  hundred
    19  twenty-four of this article.

    20    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    21  it shall have become a law.