Other Relationship-Recognition Bills
Other Relationship-Recognition Bills DEAD
Committee. AB 3592 was introduced in the Assembly on Jan. 26, 2011. It passed the Assembly Government Operations Committee on March 15, 2011, the Assembly Codes Committee on March 22, 2011, the Assembly Ways and Means Committee on April 11, 2011, the Assembly Rules Committee on April 11, 2011, and the full Assembly on April 12, 2011. It was referred to the Senate Crime Victims, Crime, and Corrections Committee. ACTIVE New York Senate Bill 382 This bill would, in part, amend the financial disclosure forms – required to be filed by every statewide elected official, state officer or employee, member of the legislature, legislative employee and political party chairman and every candidate for statewide elected office – to treat domestic partners in the same manner as spouses. STATUS: This bill was introduced in the Senate on Jan. 5, 2011, and was referred to the Finance Committee. ACTIVE New York Senate Bill 5130 This bill would amend the definition of domestic partner to be gender neutral for purposes of employees eligible for funeral or bereavement leave. STATUS: This bill was introduced in the Senate on May 3, 2011, and was referred to the Codes Committee. ACTIVE Pennsylvania House Bill 708 This bill would create civil unions. STATUS: This bill was introduced in the House on Feb. 16, 2011, and was referred to the Judiciary Committee. ACTIVE Pennsylvania House Bill 1828 This bill would amend state tax law to make the inheritance tax upon the transfer of property passing to or for the use of an individual in a domestic partnership the same rate as for spouses. STATUS: This bill was introduced in the House on Sept. 13, 2011, and was referred to the Finance Committee. ACTIVE Rhode Island House Bill 5904/ Senate Bill 377 These bills would establish reciprocal beneficiaries providing benefits related to medical care and treatment, disposition of remains, intestate succession, and real and personal property. Any two individuals over the age of 18 who are not otherwise eligible to marry would be able to enter into a reciprocal beneficiary agreement. STATUS: SB 377 was introduced in the Senate on Feb. 16, 2011, and HB5904 was introduced in the House on March 19, 2011. Both bills were referred to their respective Judiciary Committee.
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ACTIVE Rhode Island Senate Bill 376 This bill would replace civil marriage with gender neutral civil unions. STATUS: This bill was introduced in the Senate on Feb. 16, 2011, and was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee. ACTIVE Vermont House Bill 419 This bill would provide access to a civil union dissolution to non-resident couples joined in a Vermont civil union who are legally barred from dissolving the union in their state of residence, provided that the parties file a stipulation outlining an agreement executed by both parties that sets out the terms and conditions of resolution for all issues in the dissolution action. STATUS: This bill was introduced on March 8, 2011, and was referred to the Committee on Judiciary. ACTIVE Washington House Bill 1420 This bill would modify the state definition of domestic partnership to recognize two unmarried adults, regardless of sex, for the purpose of receiving domestic partner benefits for state employees. STATUS: This bill was introduced in the House on Jan 20, 2011. It passed Committee on Ways and Means on Feb. 10, 2011. DEAD Colorado House Bill 1249 This bill would have amended the definition of dependent for state personnel purposes to include domestic partners and the children of a domestic partner. STATUS: This bill was introduced on Feb. 9, 2011. It was postponed indefinitely by the Committee on Appropriations on March 18, 2011. DEAD Colorado Senate Bill 172 This bill would have established civil unions for both same-sex and opposite-sex couples, providing couples with the rights, benefits, and obligations of marriage under state law. STATUS: This bill was introduced on Feb. 14, 2011. It passed the Appropriations Committee on March 18, 2011, and the full Senate on March 24, 2011. On March 31, 2011, the House Judiciary Committee postponed the bill indefinitely. DEAD Florida House Bill 337/ Senate Bill 348 This bill would have established domestic partnerships for both same-sex and oppositesex couples, providing all of the legal state level rights, benefits, and obligations of marriage. STATUS: Both bills were introduced on March 8, 2011, in their respective chambers. HB