Bill Text: NY A03694 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-04-12 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [A03694 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A03694-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3694--A
                                                                Cal. No. 157
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 27, 2015
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        Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, JAFFEE, PERRY, GOTTFRIED, AUBRY, ABINANTI,
          OTIS,  WEPRIN,  LINARES,  MILLER  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M. of A.
          COLTON, O'DONNELL, WEINSTEIN, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to  the
          Committee  on  Governmental Operations -- advanced to a third reading,
          amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place  on  the  order  of
          third reading
        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 104 of the laws of 2015, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (b) a surviving spouse, domestic partner, grandparent,  parent,  step-
     5  parent, guardian, brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, child, step-
     6  child  or  grandchild of a victim of a crime who died as a direct result
     7  of such crime;
     8    § 2. Section 624 of the executive law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     9  subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
    10    1-a.  For  the  purposes  of  this section, "domestic partner" means a
    11  person who, with respect to another person:
    12    (a) is formally a party in a domestic partnership or similar relation-
    13  ship with the other person, entered into pursuant to  the  laws  of  the
    14  United  States or of any state, local or foreign jurisdiction, or regis-
    15  tered as the domestic partner of the  other  person  with  any  registry
    16  maintained  by  the employer of either party or any state, municipality,
    17  or foreign jurisdiction; or
    18    (b) is formally recognized as a beneficiary or  covered  person  under
    19  the other person's employment benefits or health insurance; or
    20    (c)  is  dependent  or mutually interdependent on the other person for
    21  support, as evidenced by the totality of the circumstances indicating  a
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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