Text of NY S 6177 (2009)

Skip to main content New York State Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie Assembly Members Legislative Info Public Hearings Speaker's Press Assembly Reports Committees & More Bill Search Home Laws Legislative Calendar Public Hearing Schedule Assembly Calendars Assembly Committee Agenda Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. Bill No.: Summary Actions Floor Votes Memo Text S06177 Summary: BILL NOS06177A SAME ASSAME AS A02563-A SPONSORMONTGOMERY COSPNSRADAMS, ADDABBO, BRESLIN, DILAN, DUANE, HASSELL-THOMPSON, KRUEGER, OPPENHEIMER, PARKER, PERALTA, PERKINS, SAVINO, SCHNEIDERMAN, SQUADRON, STAVISKY, STEWART-COUSINS, THOMPSON MLTSPNSR Add S79-n, Civ Rts L Provides that employers who extend funeral or bereavement leave to an employee for the death of a spouse, child, parent or other relative shall not deny the same leave for the death of an employee's same-sex committed partner; defines same-sex committed partners as those who are financially and emotionally interdependent in a manner commonly presumed of spouses. Go to top S06177 Actions: BILL NOS06177A 09/18/2009REFERRED TO RULES 01/06/2010REFERRED TO CODES 03/08/2010AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CODES 03/08/2010PRINT NUMBER 6177A 03/23/2010REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE 04/13/20101ST REPORT CAL.358 04/14/20102ND REPORT CAL. 04/19/2010ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 06/08/2010SUBSTITUTED BY A2563A A02563 AMEND=A Glick (MS) 01/20/2009referred to governmental operations 04/06/2009reported referred to ways and means 04/28/2009reported 04/30/2009advanced to third reading cal.440 05/06/2009passed assembly 05/06/2009delivered to senate 05/06/2009REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS 01/06/2010DIED IN SENATE 01/06/2010RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY 01/06/2010ordered to third reading cal.216 03/03/2010amended on third reading 2563a 06/07/2010passed assembly 06/07/2010delivered to senate 06/07/2010REFERRED TO FINANCE 06/08/2010SUBSTITUTED FOR S6177A 06/08/20103RD READING CAL.358 06/28/2010PASSED SENATE 06/28/2010RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY 08/18/2010delivered to governor 08/30/2010signed chap.423Go to top S06177 Floor Votes: There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.Go to top S06177 Text: STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6177--A 2009-2010 Regular Sessions IN SENATE September 18, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, ADAMS, DUANE, HASSELL-THOMPSON, KRUEGER, PARKER, PERKINS, SAVINO, SQUADRON, STAVISKY, STEWART-COUSINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accord- ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to authorizing funeral or bereavement leave for same-sex committed partners The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The civil rights law is amended by adding a new section 2 79-n to read as follows: 3 § 79-n. Funeral or bereavement leave. No employer who extends to its 4 employees funeral or bereavement leave for the death of an employee's 5 spouse or the child, parent or other relative of the spouse shall deny 6 the same leave to an employee for the death of the employee's same-sex 7 committed partner or the child, parent or other relative of the commit- 8 ted partner. For the purposes of this section, same-sex committed part- 9 ners are those who are financially and emotionally interdependent in a 10 manner commonly presumed of spouses. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 12 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04526-02-0 Go to top Sitemap Request Information Directions and Maps