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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S. 1422--A A. 4089--A
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
SENATE - ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2009
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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.
