The New York City Council - File #: Int 0148-2022

• File #: Int 0148-2022
• Version: A
• 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.

Date	Ver.	Prime Sponsor	Action By	Action	Result
3/9/2023	A	Justin L. Brannan	City Council	Recved from Mayor by Council
3/6/2023	A	Justin L. Brannan	Mayor	Signed Into Law by Mayor
3/6/2023	A	Justin L. Brannan	Mayor	Hearing Held by Mayor
2/16/2023	A	Justin L. Brannan	City Council	Sent to Mayor by Council
2/16/2023	A	Justin L. Brannan	City Council	Approved by Council	Pass
2/16/2023	*	Justin L. Brannan	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	Hearing Held by Committee
2/16/2023	*	Justin L. Brannan	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	Amendment Proposed by Comm
2/16/2023	*	Justin L. Brannan	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	Amended by Committee
2/16/2023	A	Justin L. Brannan	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	Approved by Committee	Pass
12/12/2022	*	Justin L. Brannan	Committee on Women and Gender Equity	Laid Over by Committee
12/12/2022	*	Justin L. Brannan	Committee on Women and Gender Equity	Hearing Held by Committee
12/12/2022	*	Justin L. Brannan	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	Laid Over by Committee
12/12/2022	*	Justin L. Brannan	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	Hearing Held by Committee
4/14/2022	*	Justin L. Brannan	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
4/14/2022	*	Justin L. Brannan	City Council	Introduced by Council

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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