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Jan 08, 2014 |
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Jan 09, 2013 |
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Senate Bill S215
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2013-S215 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A4024
- Current Committee:
- Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
- Law Section:
- Executive Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยงยง624 & 626, Exec L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2009-2010:
S1422, A4089
2011-2012: S629, A3592
2015-2016: S584, A3694
2017-2018: S153, S7012, A3920
2019-2020: S4958, A2566
2013-S215 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S215 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the executive law, in relation to eligibility of domestic partners for compensation from the crime victims' board PURPOSE: This bill would allow people maintaining significant and long-term. yet not legally formalized, relationships with homicide victims to be eligible for compensation from the Crime Victims Board for actual out of pocket losses and counseling expenses such people would include, for example, elderly siblings or relatives sharing living quarters in a mutually interdependent relationship, adult partners in long-term committed relationships not formalized by marriage and those who have parent-child relationships but have not entered into a formal adoption arrangement. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: This bill would amend Executive Law section 624 to allow a family member of a homicide victim, who resided with the victim at the time of such crime and with whom the victim maintained a long-term relationship characterized by emotional and financial commitment and interdependence, to be eligible for compensation from the Crime Victims Board when the victim died as a direct result of such crime. The term "family" is currently defined in Executive Law sec. 621 (4).
2013-S215 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 215 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 9, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SQUADRON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction 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: Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 624 of the execu- tive law, as amended by chapter 233 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows: (b) a surviving spouse, DOMESTIC PARTNER, grandparent, parent, step- parent, guardian, brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, child or stepchild of a victim of a crime who died as a direct result of such crime; S 2. Section 624 of the executive law is amended by adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows: 1-A. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "DOMESTIC PARTNER" MEANS A PERSON WHO, WITH RESPECT TO ANOTHER PERSON: (A) IS FORMALLY A PARTY IN A DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP OR SIMILAR RELATION- SHIP WITH THE OTHER PERSON, ENTERED INTO PURSUANT TO THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OR OF ANY STATE, LOCAL OR FOREIGN JURISDICTION, OR REGIS- TERED AS THE DOMESTIC PARTNER OF THE OTHER PERSON WITH ANY REGISTRY MAINTAINED BY THE EMPLOYER OF EITHER PARTY OR ANY STATE, MUNICIPALITY, OR FOREIGN JURISDICTION; OR (B) IS FORMALLY RECOGNIZED AS A BENEFICIARY OR COVERED PERSON UNDER THE OTHER PERSON'S EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS OR HEALTH INSURANCE; OR (C) IS DEPENDENT OR MUTUALLY INTERDEPENDENT ON THE OTHER PERSON FOR SUPPORT, AS EVIDENCED BY THE TOTALITY OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES INDICATING A MUTUAL INTENT TO BE A DOMESTIC PARTNER INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: COMMON OWNERSHIP OR JOINT LEASING OF REAL OR PERSONAL PROPERTY; COMMON EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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