Requires the office for the prevention of domestic violence to distribute informational materials on recognizing economic abuse and the support available to victims.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5347
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 7, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the provision of
informational materials on economic abuse
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 576 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 576. Informational materials on economic abuse. 1. In furtherance of
4 the activities required in subdivision three of section five hundred
5 seventy-five of this article, the office shall create informational
6 materials on economic abuse and describe how it is a form of domestic
7 violence. Such materials shall provide information on the impact of
8 economic abuse, how to identify and prevent economic abuse including but
9 not limited to coerced debt, and the resources available to individuals
10 suffering from economic abuse.
11 2. The informational materials required pursuant to subdivision one of
12 this section shall be provided to domestic violence shelters, local
13 social services districts, local police departments, and local childcare
14 facilities to be distributed to potential victims of domestic violence.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
16 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
17 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
18 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on or before
19 such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07018-01-3
