Bill Text: NY A00460 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to adoption by a petitioner where such petitioner's parentage is legally-recognized.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-09-16 - signed chap.258 [A00460 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A00460-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 460 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, BARRETT, GOTTFRIED, FAHY, RYAN, WEPRIN, CARROLL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law, in relation to adoption by a petitioner where such petitioner's parentage is legally-recognized The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 110 of the domestic relations law is amended by 2 adding a new closing paragraph to read as follows: 3 A petition to adopt, pursuant to the terms of this article, where the 4 petitioner's parentage is legally-recognized under New York State law 5 shall not be denied solely on the basis that the petitioner's parentage 6 is already legally-recognized. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00615-01-9