STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 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. LBD07018-01-3