Bill Text: NY S05915 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the office for the prevention of domestic violence to distribute informational materials on recognizing economic abuse and the support available to victims.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-23 - SIGNED CHAP.537 [S05915 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05915-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5915

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 22, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. GONZALEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services

        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.
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