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A02839 Summary:

BILL NO	A02839B
SAME AS	SAME AS S03403-B
SPONSOR	Glick (MS)
COSPNSR	Dinowitz, DiNapoli, Hoyt, Lavelle, O'Donnell
MLTSPNSR	Bing, Bradley, Cymbrowitz, Farrell, Gottfried, Grannis, Hooper, Jacobs, John, Lifton, McEneny, McLaughlin, Millman, Ortiz, Paulin, Pheffer, Rosenthal, Weinstein, Wright
Add S79-n, Civ Rts L
Provides that employers who extend funeral or bereavement leave to an employee for the death of a spouse, child, parent or other relative shall not deny the same leave for the death of an employee's same-sex committed partner; defines same-sex committed partners as those who are financially and emotionally interdependent in a manner commonly presumed of spouses.

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A02839 Actions:

BILL NO	A02839B
01/28/2005	referred to governmental operations
01/04/2006	referred to governmental operations
05/09/2006	reported referred to ways and means
05/16/2006	amend and recommit to ways and means
05/16/2006	print number 2839a
05/30/2006	amend and recommit to ways and means
05/30/2006	print number 2839b
06/06/2006	reported referred to rules
06/19/2006	reported
06/19/2006	rules report cal.900
06/19/2006	ordered to third reading rules cal.900
06/21/2006	passed assembly
06/21/2006	delivered to senate
06/21/2006	REFERRED TO RULES

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A02839 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         2839--B
 
                               2005-2006 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 28, 2005
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GLICK,  DINOWITZ,  DiNAPOLI,  HOYT, LAVELLE,
          O'DONNELL -- Multi-Sponsored by  --  M.  of  A.  BRADLEY,  CYMBROWITZ,
          FARRELL,  GOTTFRIED,  GRANNIS, HOOPER, JACOBS, JOHN, McENENY, McLAUGH-
          LIN, MILLMAN, ORTIZ, PAULIN, PHEFFER, WEINSTEIN, WRIGHT --  read  once
          and  referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations -- recommit-

          ted to the Committee on Governmental  Operations  in  accordance  with
          Assembly  Rule  3, sec. 2 -- reported and referred to the Committee on
          Ways  and  Means  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,   ordered
          reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted  to  said  committee -- again
          reported from said committee with  amendments,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to authorizing funeral
          or bereavement leave for same-sex committed partners
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The civil rights law is amended by  adding  a  new  section
     2  79-n to read as follows:
     3    §  79-n. Funeral or bereavement leave.  No employer who extends to its

     4  employees funeral or bereavement leave for the death  of  an  employee's
     5  spouse  or  the child, parent or other relative of the spouse shall deny
     6  the same leave to an employee for the death of the  employee's  same-sex
     7  committed  partner or the child, parent or other relative of the commit-
     8  ted partner. For the purposes of this section, same-sex committed  part-
     9  ners  are  those who are financially and emotionally interdependent in a
    10  manner commonly presumed of spouses.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    12  have become a law.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04725-04-6

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