Position Statement – 2012 A.2003B / A.8910 / A.6368B Adoption Registry Oppose Assembly 2003-B This bill would permit an adult adoptee to obtain the adoptee’s original long form birth certificate while permitting a birth parent to request confidentiality. The bill would require that birth parents are made aware of the need to request confidentiality. WBASNY opposes this ... Read More
WBASNY Legislation
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2012 – A.6113 / S.1870 (Revised)
Position Statement – 2012 A.6113 / S.1870 (Revised) Oral Translation of Orders of Protection for Limited English Proficient Litigants and Witnesses Support This bill would require courts to use a court-appointed interpreter to translate the essential terms of a temporary or final order of protection on the record. This bill would help to ensure that limited English proficient (LEP), Deaf or ... Read More
2012 – A.6113 / S.1870
Position Statement – 2012 A.6113 / S.1870 Oral Translation of Orders of Protection for Limited English Proficient Litigants and Witnesses Support This bill would require courts to use a court-appointed interpreter to translate the essential terms of a temporary or final order of protection on the record. This bill would help to ensure that limited English proficient (LEP), Deaf ... Read More
2012 – A.06992
Position Statement – 2012 A.06992 No-Fault Domestic Violence Exemption Bill Oppose The Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York (WBASNY) opposes A.06992 which would amend the Domestic Relations Law, in relation to requiring that victims of domestic violence must accede to a no-fault divorce. WBASNY is opposed to the No-Fault DV Exemption Bill. This bill may have serious ... Read More
2012 – A.10370 / S.7267
Position Statement – 2012 A.10370 / S.7267 Aggravated Public Lewdness Support Current Public Lewdness laws provide little protection to the most common victims of Public Lewdness and sexual aggression: women and children. A person commits Public Lewdness when: 1) publically engaging in any lewd act, including intentional public exposure of the private parts of the body, or; 2) when engaging ... Read More
2012 – S.323 / A.1008 (Revised)
Position Statement – 2012 S.323 / A.1008 (Revised) Prohibits Possession of Condoms as Evidence of Prostitution Support Currently, possession of any number of condoms may be introduced as evidence of prostitution. It does not promote public health and welfare if the law discourages prostitutes from carrying condoms. The mere act of carrying or otherwise possessing condoms should not, in whole ... Read More
2012 – S.323 / A.1008
Position Statement – 2012 S.323 / A.1008 Prohibits Possession of Certain Condoms as Evidence Support Currently, possession of condoms may be introduced as evidence of prostitution. It does not promote public health and welfare if the law discourages prostitutes from carrying condoms. The mere act of carrying or otherwise possessing condoms should not, in whole or in part, expose the ... Read More
2012 – S.1031B / A.3387B
Position Statement – 2012 S.1031B / A.3387B Allow Victims of Domestic Violence to Utilize Alternate Contact Information for Health Insurance-Related Correspondence Support New York has previously enacted insurance-related address confidentiality and disclosure protections for victims of intimate partner abuse and violence. While such legislation has provided critical relief to certain ... Read More