Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Dec 20, 2019 |
approval memo.63 signed chap.716 |
Dec 17, 2019 |
delivered to governor |
Feb 27, 2019 |
returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.142 substituted for s2505 |
Feb 05, 2019 |
referred to judiciary delivered to senate passed assembly |
Jan 31, 2019 |
advanced to third reading cal.21 |
Jan 28, 2019 |
reported |
Jan 14, 2019 |
referred to judiciary |
Assembly Bill A1044
Signed By Governor2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
SIMOTAS
Archive: Last Bill Status - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
David Buchwald
David Weprin
Monica P. Wallace
Colin Schmitt
2019-A1044 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-A1044 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1044 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMOTAS, BUCHWALD -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law and the civil rights law, in relation to name changes upon marriage THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Jillian's Law". § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 15 of the domestic relations law, as added by chapter 583 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows: (b) Every application for a marriage license shall contain a statement to the following effect: NOTICE TO APPLICANTS (1) Every person has the right to adopt any name by which he or she wishes to be known simply by using that name consistently and without intent to defraud. (2) A person's last name (surname) does not automatically change upon marriage, and neither party to the marriage must change his or her last name. Parties to a marriage need not have the same last name. (3) One or both parties to a marriage may elect to change the surname by which he or she wishes to be known after the solemnization of the marriage by entering the new name in the space below. Such entry shall consist of one of the following surnames: (i) the surname of the other spouse; or (ii) any former surname of either spouse; or (iii) a name combining into a single surname all or a segment of the premarriage surname or any former surname of each spouse; or (iv) a combination name separated by a hyphen, provided that each part of such combination surname is the premarriage surname, or any former surname, of each of the spouses. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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