File #: Int 0148-2022    Version: Name: Expanding the definition of victim of domestic violence to include economic abuse.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Civil and Human Rights
On agenda: 4/14/2022
Enactment date: 3/6/2023 Law number: 2023/031
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to expanding the definition of victim of domestic violence to include economic abuse
Sponsors: Justin L. Brannan, Farah N. Louis, Diana I. Ayala, Tiffany Cabán, Althea V. Stevens, Shahana K. Hanif, Julie Won, Lincoln Restler, Crystal Hudson, Sandy Nurse, Shaun Abreu, Nantasha M. Williams, Kalman Yeger , Marjorie Velázquez, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Robert F. Holden, Mercedes Narcisse, Alexa Avilés, Carlina Rivera , James F. Gennaro, Eric Dinowitz
Council Member Sponsors: 21
Summary: This bill would amend the definition of the term “victim of domestic violence” under the New York City Human Rights Law (HRL) to recognize economic abuse as a form of domestic violence and would extend existing protections for domestic violence victims to those who have experienced economic abuse. Economic abuse would include behavior that controls, obstructs, or interferes with a person’s ability to use or maintain economic resources to which they are entitled or to acquire economic resources, including by coercion, deception, fraud, or manipulation.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 148-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 148, 3. Int. No. 148, 4. April 14, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-14-22, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 14, 2022, 7. Committee Report 12/12/22, 8. Hearing Testimony 12/12/22, 9. Hearing Transcript 12/12/22, 10. Proposed Int. No. 148-A - 2/8/23, 11. Committee Report 2/16/23, 12. Hearing Transcript 2/16/23, 13. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 14. February 16, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-16-23, 16. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 16, 2023, 17. Int. No. 148-A (FINAL), 18. Fiscal Impact Statement, 19. Mayor's Letter, 20. Local Law 31
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Int. No. 148-A

 

By Council Members Brannan, Louis, Ayala, Cabán, Stevens, Hanif, Won, Restler, Hudson, Nurse, Abreu, Williams, Yeger, Velázquez, De La Rosa, Holden, Narcisse, Avilés, Rivera, Gennaro and Dinowitz

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to expanding the definition of victim of domestic violence to include economic abuse

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. The definition of “victim of domestic violence” in section 8-102 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 63 for the year 2018, is amended to read as follows:

Victim of domestic violence. The term “victim of domestic violence” means:

[a] 1. A person who has been subjected to acts or threats of violence, not including acts of self-defense, committed by a current or former spouse or domestic partner of the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a person who is cohabiting with or has cohabited with the victim, by a person who is or has been in a continuing social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim, or by a person who is living or has continually or at regular intervals lived in the same household as the victim[.]; or

2. A person who has been subjected to acts or threats of economic abuse, committed by a current or former spouse or domestic partner of the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a person who is cohabiting with or has cohabited with the victim, by a person who is or has been in a continuing social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim, or by a person who is living or has continually or at regular intervals lived in the same household as the victim. As used in this definition, the term “economic abuse” means acts or omissions that control, obstruct, or interfere with a person’s ability to use or maintain economic resources to which they are entitled or to acquire economic resources, including by coercion, deception, fraud, or manipulation.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

 

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