Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-08-30 - signed chap.423 [A02563 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Assemblymember Steven Cymbrowitz [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-045	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Helene Weinstein [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-041	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Matthew Titone [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-061	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-067	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Audrey Pheffer [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-023	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Felix Ortiz [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-051	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Daniel O'Donnell [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-069	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Joan Millman [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-052	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember John McEneny [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-104	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Susan John [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-131	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Rhoda Jacobs [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-042	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Sam Hoyt [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-144	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Earlene Hooper [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-052	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Richard Gottfried [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-075	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Deborah Glick [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-066	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Herman Farrell [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-071	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-081	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Keith Wright [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-070	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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