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States taking action to prioritize survivor financial security
States highlighted in the Map have introduced legislation in 2021-2024, that if passed, would impact their Scorecard. Click on a state to learn more about how states are prioritize survivor financial security.
2023-2024 Legislative Database
There have been over 300 pieces of legislation introduced across the nation in 2021-2024 alone that would impact survivor financial security. Use this legislative database to learn more.
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| State | Bill Number | Status | Year | Author(s) | Policy Category |
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| MA | SB 1079 | In committee process | 2023 | Moore | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would establish protections and remedies from litigation abuse | |||||
| HI | SB 2685 | Introduced | 2024 | Rhoads | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would establish litigation abuse protections | |||||
| MS | SB 2365 | Died | 2024 | Norwood | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would automatically restore voting rights upon completion of sentence and following a two-year waiting period. | |||||
| IA | HF 2610 | Pending | 2024 | Schultz | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would make changes to the survivor address confidentiality program and conduct of elections. | |||||
| MS | HB 949 | Died | 2024 | McCray | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would establish early voting. | |||||
| MS | SB 2200 | Died | 2024 | Blackmon | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would restore voting rights upon completion of sentence. | |||||
| MS | HB 1111 | Died | 2024 | Taylor | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would establish automatic voter registration. | |||||
| NE | LB 1324 | In committee process | 2024 | Conrad | State Tax Credits |
| Description: Would adopt the Child Tax Credit Act. | |||||
| IL | SB 3284 | In committee process | 2024 | Halpin | Not Specified |
| Description: Would amend the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. | |||||
| TN | HB 2417 | In committee process | 2024 | Dixie | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would allow certain individuals convicted of a serious crime between July 1, 1986, and July 1, 1996, to request full restoration of their voting rights. | |||||
| VA | HB 904 | Pending | 2024 | Price | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would make changes to voter registration activities and procedures. | |||||
| UT | SB 0174 | Sent to governor | 2024 | Pitcher | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would establish a safe leave program for certain state employees. | |||||
| MN | SF 3999 | Introduced | 2024 | Kunesh | Not Specified |
| Description: Would classify survivor-identifying documents provided by medical providers to a sexual assault exam payment program as private data | |||||
| MN | HF 3527 | Introduced | 2024 | Coulter | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would establish the Minnesota Voting Rights Act. | |||||
| IN | SB 0172 | Sent to governor | 2024 | Crider | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Would make changes to victims of crime compensation. | |||||
| IL | SB 3736 | In committee process | 2024 | Villivalam | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would allow specific driver's license or state ID applications serve dual purposes without meeting REAL ID Act standards. | |||||
| HI | SB 2685 | In committee process | 2024 | Rhoads | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would establish judicial procedures to prevent and remedy abusive litigation. | |||||
| WA | SB 6006 | Sent to governor | 2024 | Dhingra | Not Specified |
| Description: Would make changes to how the state identifies and responds to child survivors of human trafficking and sexual assault. | |||||
| HI | HB 1662 | In committee process | 2024 | Kapela | State Tax Credits |
| Description: Would establish a refundable child tax credit, applying to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024. | |||||
| UT | HB 0308 | Introduced | 2024 | Clancy | Not Specified |
| Description: Would amend provisions related to victims of crime. | |||||
| CA | AB 1536 | Vetoed | 2023 | Carillo | Services and Protections for Undocumented Survivors |
| Description: Would create a cash assistance program for 'aged, blind, and disabled' immigrants regardless of immigration status | |||||
| CA | SB 655 | Pending | 2023 | Durazo | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Would make changes to the state's crime victims compensation program, including remove the requirement for applicants to cooperate with law enforcement. | |||||
| KY | HB 118 | Introduced | 2024 | Kulkarni | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Would allow those who must leave their job due to domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking to remain eligible for unemployment insurance. | |||||
| DC | B24-0106 | Failed | 2021 | Gray | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would prohibit housing providers from inquiring into the source of income and credit history of a prospective tenant. | |||||
| DC | B24-0119 | Failed | 2021 | Mendelson | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would prevent the filing of a complaint for eviction and nonpayment rent in an amount less than $600 | |||||
| DC | B24-0354 | Failed | 2021 | White | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would hold landlords accountable for housing violations that meet the threshold of flagrant, repeated, fraudulent, or willful and violations that endanger the health, safety, or welfare of the tenants | |||||
| DC | B24-0120 | Signed into law | 2021 | Mendelson | Rental Protections |
| Description: Reforms the Emergency Rental Assistance Program to aid tenants in their recovery from the public health emergency and to reduce administrative barriers to Emergency Rental Assistance Program payments for tenants in need. | |||||
| DC | B24-0142 | Signed into law | 2021 | Gray | Rental Protections |
| Description: Establishes bed bug inspection requirements for contiguous units and establish a timeline for abatement. It requires landlords to provide the bedbug infestation history for the previous 16 months to a prospective tenant | |||||
| DC | B24-0169 | Signed into law | 2021 | Cheh | Not Specified |
| Description: Clarifies that property held by tenants by the entirety, at the time a joint revocable trust is created, retains protections from judgments against one of the spouses or domestic partners | |||||
| DC | B24-0468 | Signed into law | 2021 | Mendelson | Rental Protections |
| Description: Allows for tenants to declare financial or medical hardship incurred during the public emergency as a defense in an eviction case | |||||
| DC | B24-0469 | Signed into law | 2021 | Mendelson | Not Specified |
| Description: Amends, on an emergency basis, the Coronavirus Temporary Support Act of 2021 to update certification for utility disconnection relief criteria | |||||
| DC | B24-0635 | Signed into law | 2021 | Silverman | Rental Protections |
| Description: Continues, on an emergency basis, requiring commercial or residential rental property owners to offer a rent payment plan for certain tenants until July 25, 2022 | |||||
| DC | B24-0740 | Signed into law | 2022 | McDuffie | Rental Protections |
| Description: Amends, on an emergency basis, the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Limited Grant-Making Authority Act of 2012 to clarify that direct cash assistance payments are excluded when determining eligibility for public assistance. | |||||
| DC | B24-0741 | Signed into law | 2022 | McDuffie | Rental Protections |
| Description: Amends, on a temporary basis, the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Limited Grant-Making Authority Act of 2012 to clarify that direct cash assistance payments are excluded when determining eligibility for public assistance. | |||||
| DC | PR 24-0568 | Signed into law | 2022 | Silverman | Rental Protections |
| Description: Declares the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to continue requiring that providers of commercial or residential rental property offer a rent payment plan for eligible tenants. | |||||
| DC | PR 24-0913 | Signed into law | 2022 | McDuffie | Guaranteed Income for Survivors |
| Description: Excludes payments from unrestricted cash assistance program or similar from being considered as income for qualifying public assistance programs | |||||
| DC | PR 24-0692 | Signed into law | 2022 | Mendelson | Rental Protections |
| Description: Amends regulations to DC's tenant based housing assistance--allowing an amendment titled "Rent Subsidy Programs: Local Rent Supplement Program" to become effective immediately on an emergency basis. | |||||
| FL | HB 7039 | Companion bill enacted | 2021 | Health and Human Services Committee | Not Specified |
| Description: Clarifies that parents in dependency court often suffer from multiple challenges, such as mental illness, substance use disorder, domestic violence is within the core functions of the practice of social work | |||||
| FL | SB 606 | Companion bill enacted | 2021 | Bean | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Legislature recognizes that the perpetration of violence has adverse physical, emotional, and financial impacts on families and communities in the state. | |||||
| FL | HB 1231 | Signed into law | 2021 | Melo | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Legislature recognizes that the perpetration of violence has adverse physical, emotional, and financial impacts on families and communities in the state. | |||||
| AL | HB 208 | Signed into law | 2022 | Raff | Not Specified |
| Description: Appropriates funds to Coalition Against Domestic Violence | |||||
| CO | HB 1179 | Failed | 2021 | Duran | Not Specified |
| Description: Concerning the creation of the "Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protection Orders Act" | |||||
| FL | HB 841 | Failed | 2021 | Grieco | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would allow sealing of domestic violence petitions if is was withdrawn, dismissed, or in favor of the respondent | |||||
| MO | SB 1127 | Failed | 2022 | Thompson | Not Specified |
| Description: Would prohibit a court from compelling a victim or member of the victim's family from testifying in a domestic assault matter to disclose a residential address or place of employment unless court finds it necessary. | |||||
| NE | LB 320 | Signed into law | 2021 | Cavanaugh | Rental Protections |
| Description: Provides protections for victims of domestic violence by allowing for a domestic violence victim to obtain a release from a rental agreement under certain conditions. | |||||
| NE | LB 320 | Signed into law | 2021 | Cavanaugh | Rental Protections |
| Description: Allows a survivor to terminate a rental lease early | |||||
| NJ | AB 1924 | In committee process | 2022 | Benson | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require health insurance carriers to categorize mental health treatment and therapy received by domestic violence victim as medically necessary treatment and provide full benefits coverage for that treatment | |||||
| NJ | AB 2668 | In committee process | 2022 | Mosquera | Not Specified |
| Description: Would prohibit awarding alimony to domestic violence offenders and permits termination of alimony based on convictions related to domestic violence | |||||
| NJ | AB 2521 | In committee process | 2022 | Murphy | Rental Protections |
| Description: Provides rental and lease protections for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking | |||||
| NJ | AB 2531 | In committee process | 2022 | Murphy | Not Specified |
| Description: Would establish a tax credit program to incentivize businesses to provide support in goods and services to victims of domestic violence | |||||
| NJ | SB 1790 | In committee process | 2022 | Gopal | Not Specified |
| Description: Would expands eligibility under N.J. earned income tax credit program to allow domestic violence victims to claim credit with filing status of married filing separately | |||||
| NJ | SB 1936 | In committee process | 2022 | Cruz-Perez | Not Specified |
| Description: Would provide state-paid tuition or tuition waiver to victims of domestic violence for one semester if unable to complete previous program due to domestic violence | |||||
| NJ | AB 4491 | In committee process | 2022 | Lopez | Safe Workplaces |
| Description: Would require employers to adopt domestic violence policies and protocols | |||||
| OR | HB 2135 | Signed into law | 2021 | Brown | Not Specified |
| Description: Prohibits Teacher Standards and Practices Commission from issuing license or registration to person convicted of crime related to domestic violence. | |||||
| VT | HB 351 | Failed | 2021 | Kornheiser | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would allow for up to 8 weeks of leave in a 12-month period for survivors or if a family member is a survivor to deal with the consequences of abuse | |||||
| VT | HB 541 | Failed | 2022 | Dolan | Not Specified |
| Description: Would establish a Victims Services Advisory Counsel in order to optimize the provision of services to victims and survivors of crimes. | |||||
| WA | SB 5409 | Failed | 2021 | Dozier | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require insurers to provide reasonable exceptions to insurance rates for consumers experiencing life circumstances if contacted in writing. These include identity theft and other events determined by the insurers | |||||
| UT | HB 351 | Failed | 2022 | Pierucci | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would create a Domestic Violence Task Force | |||||
| AL | SB 109 | Signed into law | 2022 | Raff | Not Specified |
| Description: Appropriates funds to Coalition Against Domestic Violence | |||||
| AL | SB 126 | Signed into law | 2022 | Raff | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Makes changes to the states crime victims compensation program | |||||
| AL | HB 166 | Failed | 2022 | Raff | Not Specified |
| Description: Would appropriate funds to Coalition Against Domestic Violence | |||||
| AL | HB 252 | Failed | 2022 | Raff | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Would make changes to the states crime victims compensation program | |||||
| AK | HB 59 | Failed | 2021 | Claman | Safe Workplaces |
| Description: Would provide procedures for petitioning for a protective order to prevent workplace violence and remedies for violation of such protective orders | |||||
| AK | SB 115 | Failed | 2022 | Kiehl | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create an address confidentiality program | |||||
| AR | HB 1724 | Signed into law | 2021 | Gazaway | Not Specified |
| Description: Expands the types of domestic violence incidents for which a protective order may be issued | |||||
| AR | HB 1721 | Signed into law | 2021 | Gazaway | Not Specified |
| Description: Extends the statute of limitations for previously unreported domestic violence and related crimes where the prosecution has specified types of evidence | |||||
| CA | SB 373 | Failed | 2021 | Min | Coerced and Fraudulent Debt Protections |
| Description: Creates protections against coerced debt | |||||
| CA | SB 1413 | Failed | 2022 | McGuire | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Accessibility |
| Description: Would modify existing law to require nutrition benefits to households eligible for SNAP (known in California as CalFresh) benefits solely because they receive USDA Foods through the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) program. | |||||
| CA | AB 1841 | Held | 2022 | Grayson | Safe Banking Protections |
| Description: Would require California's Dept. of Financial Protection and Innovation to develop, implement, and administer a voluntary online training program for officers and employees of financial institutions regarding the economic abuse of victims of domestic violence, including with respect to economic abuse. | |||||
| CA | SB 374 | Signed into law | 2021 | Min | Not Specified |
| Description: Adds "reproductive coercion," i.e., control over reproductive autonomy of another through force, threat of force, or intimidation, to protections in California's Domestic Violence Prevention Act | |||||
| CA | AB 277 | Signed into law | 2021 | Valladares | Not Specified |
| Description: Requires Secretary of State to make application form for participation in "Safe at Home" program available in additional languages. | |||||
| CA | SB 975 | Signed into law | 2022 | Min | Coerced and Fraudulent Debt Protections |
| Description: Creates protections against coerced debt | |||||
| CA | AB-2872 | Signed into law | 2022 | Weber | Not Specified |
| Description: Modifies "Safe at Home" program in which a domestic violence victim is able to have a confidential address | |||||
| CA | SB-1017 | Signed into law | 2022 | Eggman | Rental Protections |
| Description: Prohibits landlord, except as specified, from terminating or failing to renew a tenancy based on abuse or violence against a tenant or tenant's immediate family member or household. | |||||
| CA | SB-914 | Signed into law | 2022 | Rubio | Not Specified |
| Description: Requires California Interagency Council on Homelessness to set and measure progress toward goals to prevent and end homelessness among domestic violence survivors and their children. | |||||
| CO | SB 193 | Signed into law | 2021 | Buckner | Not Specified |
| Description: Concerning the protection of a pregnant person's rights during the perinatal period, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation. | |||||
| CO | HB 1099 | Signed into law | 2021 | Ransom | Not Specified |
| Description: Concerning authorization to implement best practices for child welfare caseworkers to recognize domestic abuse | |||||
| CO | SB 292 | Signed into law | 2021 | Winter | Not Specified |
| Description: Allocation of $15MM dollars from the economic relief and recovery cash fund under the federal "American Rescue Plan Act of 2021" to fund victim's services programs for those disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 | |||||
| CO | HB 1304 | Signed into law | 2022 | Rep. Dylan Roberts | Rental Protections |
| Description: Creates local investments in transformational affordable housing grant program and the infrastructure and strong communities grant program to invest in infill infrastructure projects that support affordable housing, and making an appropriation. | |||||
| CO | SB 159 | Signed into law | 2022 | Senator Jeff Bridges | Rental Protections |
| Description: Creates a revolving loan fund within the division of housing in the department of local affairs to make investments in transformational affordable housing, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation. | |||||
| CO | HB 1083 | Signed into law | 2022 | Rep. Kerry Tipper | Not Specified |
| Description: Creates the Colorado homeless contribution income tax credit | |||||
| CO | SB 183 | Signed into law | 2022 | Senator Faith Winter | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Concerning programs that provide services to crime victims | |||||
| CT | SB 194 | Failed | 2021 | Anwar | Rental Protections |
| Description: To establish a right to housing for all residents of the state. | |||||
| CT | SB 168 | Held | 2022 | Anwar | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would establish a right to housing for all residents of the state and a right to housing committee. | |||||
| CT | HB 5312 | Signed into law | 2021 | Winkler | Not Specified |
| Description: To prohibit persons who offer consumer goods and services to the public from refusing to accept cash as a form of payment. | |||||
| CT | SB1091 | Signed into law | 2021 | Kasser | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Among other things, revises definition of domestic violence to include coercive control (i.e., non-physical violence, controlling finances, etc.) | |||||
| CT | SB 5 | Signed into law | 2022 | Looney | Not Specified |
| Description: Prohibits discrimination against a victim of family violence and expands assistance to families and children in homes experiencing domestic violence | |||||
| FL | HB 465 | Failed | 2021 | Roach | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would state depositions are not permitted, except upon a showing of good cause, of victims of any offense constituting domestic violence | |||||
| FL | HB 767 | Failed | 2021 | Bartleman | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would define victim to include "a person who suffers direct or threatened physical, psychological, or financial harm as a result of the commission or attempted commission of a crime of sexual violence or sexual exploitation." | |||||
| FL | SB 1044 | Failed | 2021 | Berman | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would define victim to include "a person who suffers direct or threatened physical, psychological, or financial harm as a result of the commission or attempted commission of a crime of | |||||
| FL | SB 1974 | Failed | 2021 | Pizzo | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would make petitions, records, and all related documents filed under ss. 741.30 and 741.301, Florida Statutes relating to domestic violence, will be confidential unless the domestic violence petition is granted | |||||
| FL | HB 843 | Failed | 2021 | Grieco | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would allow sealing of domestic violence petitions if is was withdrawn, dismissed, or in favor of the respondent | |||||
| FL | SB 554 | Failed | 2021 | Thurston | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would create a health education curriculum for students in grades 7 through 12 re: teen dating violence including the definition of it, warning signs, and ways to prevent and stop it | |||||
| FL | HB 393 | Failed | 2021 | Trabulsy | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would create a new statute that will allow early termination of rental agreement by a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, or stalking | |||||
| FL | SB 1102 | Failed | 2021 | Rodriguez | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would create a new statute that will allow early termination of rental agreement by a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, or stalking | |||||
| FL | HB 207 | Failed | 2021 | Eskamani | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Would define how domestic violence can be verified via documentation for reemployment assistance; suggested edits of "must" to "shall" | |||||
| FL | SB 592 | Failed | 2021 | Powell | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Would define how domestic violence can be verified via documentation for reemployment assistance; suggested edits of "must" to "shall" | |||||
| FL | HB 1153 | Failed | 2022 | Toledo | Coerced and Fraudulent Debt Protections |
| Description: Would prohibit persons from contacting debtors when collecting a consumer debt if the debt arises from specified circumstances relating to domestic abuse | |||||
| FL | SB 1424 | Failed | 2022 | Rodriguez | Coerced and Fraudulent Debt Protections |
| Description: Would prohibit persons from contacting debtors when collecting a consumer debt if the debt arises from specified circumstances relating to domestic abuse | |||||
| FL | SB 1106 | Failed | 2022 | Berman | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would expand the state's definition of abuse to include "coercive control" | |||||
| FL | HB 521 | Failed | 2022 | Skidmore | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would expand the definition of "coercion" to include causing or threatening to cause financial harm to any person or withholding income from a person which he or she earned | |||||
| FL | HB 781 | Failed | 2022 | Grieco | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would expand the state's definition of abuse to include "coercive control" | |||||
| FL | SB 760 | Failed | 2022 | Berman | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would expand the definition of "coercion" to include causing or threatening to cause financial harm to any person or withholding income from a person which he or she earned | |||||
| FL | SB 1218 | Failed | 2022 | Bracy | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would make changes to the batterers intervention program that includes changing the definition of domestic violence | |||||
| FL | SB 148 | Failed | 2022 | Diaz | Not Specified |
| Description: Would Require the Dept of Education to prepare and offer certain standards and curriculum in dating violence and abuse including the definition of it, warning signs, ways to prevent it, and available community resources | |||||
| FL | SB 1598 | Failed | 2022 | Garcia | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would create a domestic violence task force with the purpose to evaluate the child welfare system in relation to domestic violence investigations and cases | |||||
| FL | SB 1782 | Failed | 2022 | Bracy | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would provide immunity from liability for leasing to persons with certain criminal records unless the criminal offense was a violation of s. 787.06 relating to human trafficking | |||||
| FL | HB 1463 | Signed into law | 2021 | Commerce Committee | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Allows for survivors of domestic violence who quit their job due to abuse to remain eligible to unemployment insurance | |||||
| FL | SB 96 | Signed into law | 2021 | Not Specified | |
| Description: Clarifies that parents in dependency court often suffer from multiple challenges, such as mental illness, substance use disorder, domestic violence is within the core functions of the practice of social work | |||||
| FL | HB 7 | Signed into law | 2022 | Avila | Not Specified |
| Description: Requires the Dept of Education to prepare and offer certain standards and curriculum in dating violence and abuse including the definition of it, warning signs, ways to prevent it, and available community resources | |||||
| FL | SB 2524 | Signed into law | 2022 | Committee on Appropriations | Not Specified |
| Description: Requires the Dept of Education to revise the Health Education standards and implement the Safer, Smarter Schools Program | |||||
| GA | HB 524 | Failed | 2021 | Lim | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would require landlords to provide residential tenants with a notice of tenants' rights and responsibilities which includes "Right to terminate lease without penalty for any tenant experiencing domestic violence seeking to move out, under certain conditions" | |||||
| HI | HB 569 | Failed | 2021 | Ichiyama | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would expand the definition of victim of domestic violence to include one that is overcoming any adverse emotional or psychological effect of dating violence, stalking, sexual harassment | |||||
| HI | SB 50 | Failed | 2021 | Chang | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Requires covered offenders to register and annually renew their registration for 15 years, or for life if convicted of a class A felony domestic violence offense. | |||||
| HI | SB 829 | Failed | 2021 | San Buenaventura | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Adds coercive control, as defined in section 586-1, as part of the petty misdemeanor offense of abuse of a family or household member to the pilot program to strengthen state and county responses to domestic violence and increase violator accountability | |||||
| HI | HB 1326 | Failed | 2021 | Matayoshi | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Allows a narrow hearsay exception for statements made by domestic violence victims during the course of the first interaction with the responding law enforcement officers and before the arrest of the defendant | |||||
| HI | HB 82 | Failed | 2021 | Quinlan | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would make it so that a child shall not be placed in a home in which a person resides who has committed family violence | |||||
| HI | SB 832 | Failed | 2022 | Baker | Not Specified |
| Description: Would expand the victim-counselor privilege under Rule 505.5 of the Hawaiʻi Rules of Evidence to include confidential advocates employed by the University of Hawaiʻi. | |||||
| HI | HB 2211 | Failed | 2022 | Ichiyama | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would establish an exemption from mediation in paternity proceedings where there are allegations of domestic abuse. | |||||
| HI | SB 2395 | Failed | 2022 | Rhoads | Not Specified |
| Description: Would add coercive control and litigation abuse by a parent of a child to the list of factors to be considered by the court in determining what constitutes the best interest of the child when awarding custody and visitation rights | |||||
| HI | SB 2642 | Failed | 2022 | Baker | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would establish an exemption from mediation in paternity proceedings where there are allegations of domestic abuse if the party alleging domestic abuse does not wish to participate. | |||||
| HI | HB 2192 | Failed | 2022 | Matayoshi | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would add coercive control to the factors a court may consider in determining the best interest of the child. | |||||
| HI | HB 792 | Failed | 2021 | Okimoto | Not Specified |
| Description: Would prevent a child from being placed in a home in which a person has committed family violence | |||||
| HI | HB 566 | Signed into law | 2021 | Ichiyama | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Adds coercive control between family or household members to the pilot program to strengthen state and county responses to domestic violence and increase violator accountability | |||||
| HI | HCR 57 | Signed into law | 2021 | Kapela | Not Specified |
| Description: Urges the state to convene an intern-governmental feminist Economic Recovery Working group to focus on the impact of COVID-19 on survivors | |||||
| IA | HF 174 | Failed | 2021 | Anderson | Not Specified |
| Description: Would amends definition of domestic abuse | |||||
| IA | HF 275 | Failed | 2021 | Anderson | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Requires minimum paid sick and safe time for employees. | |||||
| IA | HF 618 | Failed | 2021 | Gobble | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Allows for an exemption of net income for individual and corporate income taxes by an employer to an employee while on parental leave. | |||||
| IA | HF 2478 | Failed | 2022 | Committee on Judiciary | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would include victims of domestic abuse within the Victim Rights Act, which involves rights such as the right to receive a no contact order, to have law enforcement assist the victim in obtaining transportation and medical care, etc. | |||||
| IA | HF 2479 | Failed | 2022 | Staed | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would allow early termination of a rental agreement if the tenant is a victim of an act including domestic abuse, sexual abuse, stalking, etc. | |||||
| IA | HF 825 | Signed into law | 2022 | Committee on Judiciary | Not Specified |
| Description: Allows a court in a domestic abuse or sexual abuse case to approve a consent agreement or grant a protective order without a finding that a defendant committed domestic abuse or sexual abuse. | |||||
| IA | HF 233 | Signed into law | 2021 | Committee on Judiciary | Designated Tort for Intimate Partner Violence |
| Description: Creates a civil remedy for the disclosure of private, sexually explicit images without consent of the depicted individual. | |||||
| IA | HF 847 | Signed into law | 2021 | Committee on Ways and Means | Not Specified |
| Description: Provides an educational tax credit for each dependent of the taxpayer attending an elementary or secondary school situated in Iowa equal to 25% of the first $1,000 that the taxpayer has paid. | |||||
| IA | SF 342 | Signed into law | 2021 | Committee on Judiciary | Coerced and Fraudulent Debt Protections |
| Description: Allows for a person identified as a "debtor" to file an affidavit that the affiant believes that the field record identifying the affiant as debtor was not authorized to be filed and was intended to harass or defraud the affiant. | |||||
| IA | HF 2282 | Failed | 2022 | Committee on Judiciary | Not Specified |
| Description: Would amend spousal privilege and confidential communications regarding evidence of communications of threats. | |||||
| IA | SF 2180 | Failed | 2022 | Kinney | Not Specified |
| Description: Would authorize Dept. of Justice to adopt rules related to the ability for victims of domestic abuse to obtain an operator's identification card. | |||||
| IA | HF 2065 | Failed | 2022 | Anderson | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create a violent death reporting system with procedures to make the information available to the Iowa domestic abuse death review team and the Iowa child abuse death review team. | |||||
| IA | HF 421 | Withdrawn | 2021 | Committee on Judiciary | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create a civil action against a person who commits the crime of harassment. | |||||
| ME | LD 773 | Failed | 2022 | Raff | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create assistance for public school students and families who are homeless | |||||
| ME | LD 1765 | Signed into law | 2022 | Raff | Not Specified |
| Description: Will make transitional child care services to families who lose eligibility for TANF | |||||
| ME | LD 1748 | Signed into law | 2022 | Raff | Not Specified |
| Description: Creates a study to improve TANF | |||||
| ME | LD 888 | Failed | 2021 | Raff | Not Specified |
| Description: Would provide funding for culturally specific sexual assault and domestic violence prevention and victim services | |||||
| ME | LD 1755 | Failed | 2022 | Raff | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create oversight of child welfare practice and policy to ensure the rights and safety of children and their families | |||||
| ME | LD 690 | Signed into law | 2021 | Raff | Designated Tort for Intimate Partner Violence |
| Description: Expands the statute of limitation to sue a harm-doer to "as soon as possible" | |||||
| ME | LD 1294 | Signed into law | 2021 | Raff | Rental Protections |
| Description: Prevents employment and housing discrimination for those how have sought and received an order of protection | |||||
| ME | LD 1408 | Signed into law | 2021 | Raff | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Elevates the crime of domestic violence assault to domestic violence aggravated assault if the assault is committed in the presence of a child under 14 years of 18 age | |||||
| ME | LD 1491 | Signed into law | 2021 | Raff | Not Specified |
| Description: Provides funding for training programs to sustain and expand the accessibility of certified batterers' intervention programs. | |||||
| ME | LD 947 | Signed into law | 2021 | Raff | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Expands state's definition of abuse to include economic abuse | |||||
| ME | LD 78 | Signed into law | 2021 | Raff | Not Specified |
| Description: Terminates benefits for non complying parent by continue to provide assistance to the children and complying parents | |||||
| MO | SB 16 | Failed | 2021 | Schupp | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would entitle an employee of a private or public employer who employs at least 20 employees to unpaid leave if the person, or a family or household member, is a victim of domestic or sexual violence. | |||||
| MO | HB 126 | Failed | 2021 | Mackey | Not Specified |
| Description: Establishes extreme risk protection orders and gun violence seizure warrants and prohibits certain persons involved in domestic violence from possessing a firearm. | |||||
| MO | HB 1439 | Failed | 2021 | Weber | Not Specified |
| Description: Create a statewide program to provide comprehensive necessary health, mental health, and dental care services to all Missouri residents. | |||||
| MO | HB 71 | Failed | 2021 | Billington | Not Specified |
| Description: Would reduce defendant's time to file a motion to set aside judgment or for a new trial from 10 days to 5 days. | |||||
| MO | HB 833 | Failed | 2021 | Weber | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Would change the total amount of unemployment compensation benefits an insured worker may receive during a benefit year. | |||||
| MO | HB 594 | Failed | 2021 | Mackey | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Accessibility |
| Description: Would extend the expiration on the program that allows SNAP recipients to utilize local farmers' markets to August 28, 2033 | |||||
| MO | HB 2255 | Failed | 2022 | Bailey | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Accessibility |
| Description: Would requires a parent, caretaker relative, putative father, or identified noncustodial parent to cooperate with the child support program to be eligible for SNAP benefits. | |||||
| MO | HB 2085 | Failed | 2022 | Cook | Not Specified |
| Description: Would make changes the law regarding the use of TANF and SNAP benefits via EBT transactions | |||||
| MO | SB 729 | Pending | 2022 | Schupp | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would require that all employees who are not independent contractors are eligible to receive up to 6 weeks each year of wage replacement benefits for certain reasons including birth of a child, caring for an ill family member with a serious health condition, etc. | |||||
| MO | HB 2182 | Failed | 2022 | Proudie | Not Specified |
| Description: Would provides a tax credit in the amount of $1,000 if the taxpayer has converted abandoned property into an operational shelter for victims of domestic violence. The bill also provides a $500 tax credit if the taxpayer has rented residential real estate to a victim of domestic violence. | |||||
| MO | HB 2024 | Failed | 2022 | Davidson | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create a right of action against a person that exposes intimate images of someone | |||||
| MO | HB 2347 | Failed | 2022 | Anderson | Not Specified |
| Description: Would Increase the surcharge on criminal court proceedings and authorizes the $10 surcharge to be deposited into the "Victims of Domestic Violence Fund" which is created in this bill. | |||||
| MO | HB 2581 | Failed | 2022 | Aldridge | Not Specified |
| Description: Would establish a tax credit in an amount equal to a percentage of the amount of a taxpayer's federal child and dependent care tax credit | |||||
| MO | HB 2867 | Failed | 2022 | Nurrenbern | Not Specified |
| Description: Would authorize a tax credit for employers that assist employees with childcare. | |||||
| MO | HB 2337 | Failed | 2022 | Aldridge | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would authorizes up to 14 weeks of wage replacement benefits to employees that take time off work to bond with a minor child within 1 year of the birth or placement of the child in connection with foster care or adoption. | |||||
| MO | SB 719 | Failed | 2022 | Washington | Not Specified |
| Description: Would authorize a tax credit for the purchase of a first-time home buyer purchasing an eligible blighted property. | |||||
| MO | SB 1123 | Failed | 2022 | Arthur | Not Specified |
| Description: Would authorize a tax credit in the amount of $2,000 per birth for which a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth has been issued. | |||||
| MT | HB 631 | Failed | 2021 | Kerr-Carpenter | State Tax Filing Protections |
| Description: Would increases the amount of credit allowed for the EITC | |||||
| MT | HB 164 | Signed into law | 2021 | Keogh | Not Specified |
| Description: Revises laws regarding temporary automatic domestic relations orders, automatic economic restraining orders | |||||
| MT | HB 211 | Signed into law | 2021 | Frazer | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Revises victim compensation, increasing the amount of compensation. | |||||
| NE | LB 691 | Signed into law | 2022 | Blood | Not Specified |
| Description: Adds survivors of kidnapping to the eligibility requirements for the Address Confidentiality Program. | |||||
| NE | LB 922 | Signed into law | 2022 | Lathrop | Not Specified |
| Description: Provides for courts to order a parent to provide health insurance coverage for a child consistent with the Nebraska Supreme Court Child Support Guidelines. | |||||
| NE | LB 118 | Failed | 2021 | Morfeld | Not Specified |
| Description: Amends the duration of harassment, sexual assault, and domestic abuse protection orders from one year to five years. | |||||
| NE | LB 290 | Failed | 2021 | Cavanaugh | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would creates a paid family and medical leave insurance program to provide partial wage replacement for eligible workers to care for themselves or a family member. | |||||
| NE | LR 194 | Failed | 2021 | DeBoer | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create a resolution to examine methods of ending domestic and sexual violence. | |||||
| NE | LB 241 | Failed | 2021 | Vargas | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would provide for numerous protections for meatpacking workers including paid work time, PPP equipment, reporting, and more. | |||||
| NE | LR 190 | Failed | 2021 | McCollister | Not Specified |
| Description: Would authorize interim study to examine the work participation requirements in the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program in Nebraska. | |||||
| NE | LB 258 | Failed | 2021 | Vargas | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would requires employers with 50 or more employees to offer paid leave | |||||
| NE | LB 1192 | Held | 2022 | McDonnell | Not Specified |
| Description: Would provide a temporary injunction against both parties upon filing a complaint for dissolution of marriage or legal separation that will stay in effect until a final decree is entered, complaint dismissed, or court orders | |||||
| NE | LB 772 | Held | 2022 | Day | Not Specified |
| Description: Would reduce the financial consequences for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, and child abuse when seeking medical care | |||||
| NE | LB 931 | Held | 2022 | Hunt | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would allow contract or seasonal employees can save earned vacation pay to receive a lump sum payment at the end of their contract or employment | |||||
| NE | LB 710 | Held | 2022 | McCollister | Not Specified |
| Description: Would make changes to the liquid asset limit for eligibility for benefits | |||||
| NE | LB 1009 | Held | 2022 | Brandt | Not Specified |
| Description: Would develop a statewide system for examining domestic abuse deaths. | |||||
| NE | LB 741 | Signed into law | 2021 | DeBoer | Not Specified |
| Description: Develops a statewide system for examining stillbirth deaths and maternal deaths. | |||||
| NV | AB 21 | Failed | 2021 | Assembly Committee on Government Affairs | Not Specified |
| Description: Would allow people in ACP to have their address kept confidential by the court recorder. | |||||
| NV | AB 424 | Failed | 2021 | Assembly Committee on Judiciary | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would make changes to pretrial release | |||||
| NV | SB 147 | Failed | 2021 | Senate Committee on Judiciary | Not Specified |
| Description: Would make changes pretrial release conditions and allows the victim to request the court issue an order imposing a condition of release prohibiting contact. | |||||
| NV | SB 355 | Failed | 2021 | Senate Committee on Judiciary | Not Specified |
| Description: Would allow some crimes to prosecuted as civil infractions at the discretion of the prosecuting authority | |||||
| NV | SB 80 | Failed | 2021 | Hardy | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require courts to ascertain whether a defendant is an adverse party in a protective order before authorizing the retrieval of personal property under certain circumstances. | |||||
| NJ | SB 2039 | In committee process | 2022 | Cruz-Perez | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would add Adds civil penalties and increases surcharges imposed on domestic violence offenders; establishes Domestic Violence Victims Legal Assistance Fund. | |||||
| NJ | AB 4004 | In committee process | 2022 | Murphy | Not Specified |
| Description: Would provide for establishing program to ensure victims of domestic violence have safe havens at fire stations where they will be referred to emergency shelters, legal assistance and community resources | |||||
| NJ | SB 2699 | In committee process | 2022 | Zwicker | Not Specified |
| Description: Would allow courts to require defendant to pay for child's professional domestic violence counseling at plaintiff's request and/or to require defendant to reimburse plaintiff for such costs | |||||
| NJ | AB 3724 | In committee process | 2022 | Stanley | Not Specified |
| Description: Would specify that emergency, transitional and permanent housing for victims of domestic violence would be funded by "Domestic Violence Victims' Fund" | |||||
| NJ | AB 4489 | In committee process | 2022 | Lopez | Not Specified |
| Description: Would establish a program in Department of Health regarding evaluation and response to victims of domestic violence; contemplates partnerships with community organizations and health providers to improve assistance offered to victim | |||||
| NY | AB 781 | Failed | 2021 | Rozic | Services and Protections for Undocumented Survivors |
| Description: Would prohibits disclosure of immigration status for victims of domestic violence | |||||
| NY | AB 9094B | Failed | 2022 | Griffin | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would create the establishment of five crime victim and trauma survivor recovery centers throughout the state | |||||
| NY | SB 55 | Failed | 2021 | Persaud | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require medical assistance be provided to victims of domestic violence to care for and treat any scarring resulting from the domestic violence incident | |||||
| NY | SB 7537 | Failed | 2022 | Kaplan | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would create the establishment of five crime victim and trauma survivor recovery centers throughout the state | |||||
| NY | SB 5641 | Failed | 2021 | Parker | Not Specified |
| Description: Would authorize a victim of domestic violence to remove the violent felony offender from deed of co-owned real property in such county | |||||
| NY | AB 06207B | Signed into law | 2021 | Rosenthal | Not Specified |
| Description: Requires the release of individuals from utility, phone and television contracts in instances of domestic violence. | |||||
| NY | SB 7157 | Signed into law | 2021 | Parker | Not Specified |
| Description: Requires the release of individuals from utility, phone and television contracts in instances of domestic violence. | |||||
| NY | AB 2519A | Signed into law | 2021 | Cymbrowitz | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require health insurance to provide insurers/subscribers who are victims of domestic violence with option to designate alternative contact information for claims/billing | |||||
| NY | S7263A | Signed into law | 2021 | Liu | Not Specified |
| Description: Requires health insurance to provide insurers/subscribers who are victims of domestic violence with option to designate alternative contact information for claims/billing | |||||
| NY | SB 5049 | Failed | 2021 | Parker | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require defendants of IPV to wear global positioning systems monitoring the location of the defendant | |||||
| NY | A04516 | Failed | 2021 | Walker | Not Specified |
| Description: Would allow survivors to apply to the county clerk to remove the violent felony offender from deed of co-owned real property in such county | |||||
| NY | AB 04541 | Failed | 2021 | Peoples-Stokes | Not Specified |
| Description: Relates to the protection of victims of domestic violence act, which requires defendants to wear global positioning systems monitoring the location of the defendant. | |||||
| NY | AB 03696 | Failed | 2021 | Rosenthal | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require defendants of IPV to wear global positioning systems monitoring the location of the defendant | |||||
| NY | AB 2646 | Failed | 2021 | Hyndman | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require the New York city housing authority, in reviewing applicants, to grant domestic violence victims the same preference as granted to any other class of applicants. | |||||
| NY | SB 817 | Failed | 2021 | Biaggi | Not Specified |
| Description: Requires the New York city housing authority, in reviewing applicants, to grant domestic violence victims the same preference as granted to any other class of applicants. | |||||
| NY | AB 04513 | Failed | 2021 | De La Rosa | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would allow a survivor to take an additional 2 weeks of unpaid safe leave | |||||
| NY | S3024 | Failed | 2021 | Parker | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would allow a survivor to take an additional 2 weeks of unpaid safe leave | |||||
| NY | AB 00921 | Failed | 2021 | Jones | Safe Workplaces |
| Description: Would require care providers to provide information in cases of suspected domestic violence | |||||
| NY | SB 5343 | Failed | 2021 | Stec | Safe Workplaces |
| Description: Would require care providers to provide information in cases of suspected domestic violence | |||||
| NY | SB 1555A | Signed into law | 2021 | Myrie | Not Specified |
| Description: Amends election law to allow victims of domestic violence to keep their voter registration record confidential | |||||
| NY | AB 9601B | Signed into law | 2022 | Lucas | Not Specified |
| Description: Prohibits discrimination based on status as a victim of domestic violence | |||||
| NY | SB 8417 | Signed into law | 2022 | Persaud | Not Specified |
| Description: Prohibits discrimination based on status as a victim of domestic violence | |||||
| NY | AB 465A | Signed into law | 2021 | Rozic | Not Specified |
| Description: Amends election law to allow victims of DV to keep their voter registration record confidential | |||||
| NY | AB 04496 | Signed into law | 2021 | De La Rosa | Not Specified |
| Description: Allows survivors to be released from utility corporation services in instances of domestic violence where such individuals request to opt-out in writing and provide certain documents to the utility corporation | |||||
| NY | SB 1557 | Signed into law | 2021 | Parker | Not Specified |
| Description: Allows survivors to be released from utility corporation services in instances of domestic violence where such individuals request to opt-out in writing and provide certain documents to the utility corporation | |||||
| NC | SB 823 | Failed | 2022 | Britt | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Increase allowable expenses for survivors in the crime victims compensation program | |||||
| NC | SB 480 | Failed | 2021 | Batch | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would prohibit a landlord from terminating a tenancy, failing to renew a tenancy, refusing to enter into a rental agreement, or otherwise retaliating in the rental of a dwelling, because of the tenant's, applicant's, or household member's status as a victim of attempted homicide | |||||
| NC | HB 1089 | Failed | 2021 | Belk | Not Specified |
| Description: Would allocate funds to provide statewide grants to expand DV related programs | |||||
| NC | SB 445 | Failed | 2021 | Sawyer | Not Specified |
| Description: Would allow the victim of domestic violence committed by the victim's spouse to seek a divorce without having to meet the required one year separation period | |||||
| NC | SB 858 | Failed | 2022 | Senator Mohammed | Not Specified |
| Description: Would reinstate the Earned Income Tax Credit | |||||
| NC | SB 865 | Failed | 2022 | Chaudhuri | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create a child tax credit | |||||
| NC | HB 1138 | Failed | 2022 | Lofton | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create a child tax credit | |||||
| NC | SB 444 | Failed | 2021 | deViere | Not Specified |
| Description: Would allow the victim of domestic violence committed by the victim's spouse to seek a divorce without having to meet the required one year separation period | |||||
| OH | SB 36 | Signed into law | 2022 | Raff | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Makes changes to eligibility for victim reparations and expands the allowable expenses | |||||
| OH | SB 17 | Failed | 2021 | Raff | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Accessibility |
| Description: Would make changes to work requirement for Medicaid and to eligibility requirement for SNAP | |||||
| OH | HB 3 | Failed | 2021 | Raff | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would make changes to civil and criminal law regarding domestic violence | |||||
| OH | HB 199 | Failed | 2021 | Raff | Designated Tort for Intimate Partner Violence |
| Description: Would remove the cap on damages for non economic loss when a victim of rape or assault brings a tort action | |||||
| OH | HB 256 | Failed | 2021 | Raff | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would allow survivors to terminate a rental lease early | |||||
| OH | HB 343 | Signed into law | 2022 | Raff | Not Specified |
| Description: Makes requirement to inform victims of their rights | |||||
| OK | SB 200 | Signed into law | 2021 | Montgomery | Rental Protections |
| Description: Allows a survivor terminate a lease without penalty by providing written notice and a protective order | |||||
| OK | SB17 | Signed into law | 2021 | Floyd | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Requires an officer conducting a lethality assessment on a potential domestic abuse victim to implement the protocol referral process to a domestic violence advocate | |||||
| OK | HB 1622 | Failed | 2021 | Mize | Not Specified |
| Description: Would all allow victim of domestic violence to obtain an order getting phone & utilities in their name if it's not already in it | |||||
| OR | SB 271 | Failed | 2021 | Kayse Jama | Not Specified |
| Description: Would sunset until January 2, 2024, for program authorizing Department of Justice to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault with housing needs. | |||||
| OR | SB 197 | Signed into law | 2021 | Bynum | Not Specified |
| Description: Extends applicability of education policies related to teen dating violence, domestic violence and sexual harassment to private schools. | |||||
| OR | SB 497 | Signed into law | 2021 | Gorsek | Not Specified |
| Description: Requires that a judgement document reflects if an assault was a case of domestic violence | |||||
| OR | HB 3265 | Signed into law | 2021 | Leon | Services and Protections for Undocumented Survivors |
| Description: Prohibits law enforcement agency or public body from denying services, benefits, privileges or opportunities to certain individuals on basis of federal civil immigration actions, inquiring about individual's citizenship status without connection to criminal investigation or providing information about individual in custody to federal immigration authority. | |||||
| OR | HB 4117 | Signed into law | 2022 | Ruiz | Not Specified |
| Description: Directs Department of Human Services to adopt by rule grant program to provide funding to culturally specific and responsive organizations, tribal governments and under-resourced rural community service organizations | |||||
| OR | HB 4120 | Signed into law | 2022 | Walters | Not Specified |
| Description: Authorizes the court will consider the financial resources of the defendant and the burden that payment of the minimum fine would impose, with due regard to the other obligations of the defendant; and the extent to which that burden could be alleviated | |||||
| OR | HB 2400 | Failed | 2021 | Neron | Not Specified |
| Description: Would provides that victim of sexual assault or domestic violence crime has right to obtain law enforcement records relating to crime. | |||||
| OR | HB 2754 | Failed | 2021 | Noble | Not Specified |
| Description: Would appropriate moneys to Department of Human Services to fund existing contracted domestic violence specialist positions in child welfare offices. | |||||
| OR | HB 2825 | Failed | 2021 | Lively | Not Specified |
| Description: Would direct Judicial Department to establish felony domestic violence offender registry website. | |||||
| OR | SB 304 | Failed | 2021 | Riley | Not Specified |
| Description: Would provide that discovery of victim's actual or perceived gender, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation does not constitute reasonable explanation for extreme emotional disturbance for purposes of affirmative defense to murder in the second degree. | |||||
| OR | SB 646 | Failed | 2021 | Hansell | Not Specified |
| Description: Would direct the Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force to study ways of preventing disclosure of personal medical information of sexual assault victims and report results the legislature | |||||
| OR | HB 2418 | Failed | 2021 | Neron | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require a district attorney to, upon request, provide to sexual assault victim opportunity to review case file within district attorney's office. | |||||
| OR | SB 476 | Failed | 2021 | Taylor | Not Specified |
| Description: would direct the Department of Human Services to study and make recommendations on provisions of state law related to domestic violence. | |||||
| PA | HB 2029 | Failed | 2021 | Pennycuick | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would allow a survivor to terminate rental lease early | |||||
| PA | HB 2166 | Failed | 2021 | Kenyatta | Not Specified |
| Description: Would expand eligibility and for the medically needy and determination of eligibility, including to survivors of domestic violence | |||||
| PA | HB 519 | Failed | 2021 | Schweyer | Not Specified |
| Description: Would provide health care insurance coverage protections, for duties of the Insurance Department and the Insurance Commissioner, for regulations, for enforcement and for penalties. | |||||
| PA | HB 555 | Failed | 2021 | Gaydos | Not Specified |
| Description: Would amend changes in regulation of insurers and related persons generally, providing for association health plans. | |||||
| PA | HB 181 | Failed | 2021 | Kosierowski | Not Specified |
| Description: Would make amendments in providing for criminal prosecutions involving domestic violence survivors; and, in post-trial matters, providing for post conviction relief for domestic violence survivors. | |||||
| PA | SB 307 | Failed | 2021 | Boscola | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create provisions to to allow a survivor to opt out of shared telephone contracts | |||||
| PA | SB 638 | Failed | 2021 | Hughes | Not Specified |
| Description: Would electronic monitoring of defendants as an option of relief in protection from abuse | |||||
| PA | HB 551 | Failed | 2021 | Keefer | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Would allow survivors to remain eligible for unemployment insurance | |||||
| PA | HB 2027 | Failed | 2021 | Thomas | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would create safe leave protections for survivors | |||||
| RI | HB 6003 | Held | 2021 | Kazarian | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create measures to protect the identity and safety of victims of domestic violence | |||||
| RI | HB 6639 | Held | 2022 | Henries | Services and Protections for Undocumented Survivors |
| Description: Would prohibit discrimination in housing based on immigration status and lawful source of income used for rental or mortgage payments | |||||
| RI | HB 8015 | Signed into law | 2022 | Amore | Not Specified |
| Description: Allows survivors to apply to the secretary of state to have an address designated by the state to serve as the person's substitute address | |||||
| RI | SB 2659 | Signed into law | 2022 | Euer | Not Specified |
| Description: Allows survivors to apply to the secretary of state to have an address designated by the state to serve as the person's substitute address | |||||
| RI | HB 5257 | Signed into law | 2021 | Williams | Rental Protections |
| Description: Prohibits discrimination in housing against those who have a lawful source of income, which includes child support, alimony, public assistance, and rental assistance | |||||
| RI | SB 0561 | Signed into law | 2021 | Kallman | Rental Protections |
| Description: Prohibits discrimination in housing against those who have a lawful source of income, which includes child support, alimony, public assistance, and rental assistance | |||||
| RI | HB 7360 | Withdrawn | 2022 | Casimiro | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would define domestic abuse to include coercive control, which includes "controlling, regulating or monitoring another's movements, communications, daily behavior, finances, economic resources or access to services" | |||||
| SC | HB 3621 | Failed | 2021 | May | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would create offense of Coercive Control | |||||
| SC | SB 927 | Failed | 2021 | Shealy | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would create offense of Coercive Control | |||||
| SC | SB 223 | Failed | 2021 | Shealy | Not Specified |
| Description: Would establish address confidentiality for victims of abuse | |||||
| SC | SB 340 | Failed | 2021 | McLeod | Not Specified |
| Description: Would establish Confidentiality Standards for Nonprofits serving victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. | |||||
| SC | HB 4009 | Failed | 2021 | Bernstein | Not Specified |
| Description: Would establish Confidentiality Standards for Nonprofits serving victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. | |||||
| SC | SB 666 | Failed | 2021 | Grooms | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would to exclude damage as a result of one or more domestic violence incidents against a tenant or members of tenants household, thus preventing expedited ejectment of victimized tenant or household member due to property damage in "Malicious Damage to Property" definition | |||||
| SC | HB 3553 | Failed | 2021 | Thigpen | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would allow domestic violence victims to request & receive door lock replacements in certain instances and allows victims to terminate their own rental agreement. | |||||
| SC | SB 686 | Failed | 2021 | Shealy | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create a Sexual Assault Survivors Bill of Rights | |||||
| SC | HB 3487 | Failed | 2021 | Thigpen | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create a Sexual Assault Survivors Bill of Rights | |||||
| SC | SB 75 | Failed | 2021 | Malloy | Designated Tort for Intimate Partner Violence |
| Description: Would expand the time frame for the statute of limitations in a civil action for damages resulting from sexual assault or abuse | |||||
| SC | HB 3210 | Failed | 2021 | Bernstein | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would expand the definition of "household member" to include dating relationships under the Protection from Domestic Abuse Act. | |||||
| TX | SB 8 | Signed into law | 2021 | Nelson | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Ensures that the amount of money towards VOCA in 2021 will be matched in both 2022 and 2023 | |||||
| TX | HB 47 | Failed | 2021 | Reynolds | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would require certain employers to provide paid sick leave to primary and secondary survivors of family violence, sexual abuse, sexual assault, stalking, or harassment; providing administrative and civil penalties. | |||||
| TX | HB 140 | Failed | 2021 | Minjarez | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Accessibility |
| Description: Would make additional fundings to be used only to provide funding for evidence-based initiatives for survivors of domestic assault and sexual assault authorized by other law | |||||
| UT | HB 117 | Signed into law | 2022 | Pitcher | Not Specified |
| Description: Creates an address confidentiality program for crime victims. | |||||
| UT | HB 104 | Failed | 2021 | Pitcher | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create an address confidentiality program for crime victims. | |||||
| UT | HB 129 | Failed | 2021 | Snow | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would create the Office on Domestic and Sexual Violence and the Domestic Violence Offender Advisory Board | |||||
| UT | HB 490 | Failed | 2022 | Ivory | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would create a strategic planning committee which would include director of Utah Office on Domestic and Sexual Violence and executive director of Utah state domestic violence coalition | |||||
| UT | SB 67 | Failed | 2021 | Weiler | Safe Workplaces |
| Description: Would create a workplace violence protective order, establishes timing and court relief related to a petition thereof. | |||||
| UT | HB 255 | Signed into law | 2021 | Snow | Not Specified |
| Description: Modified various provisions relating to protective orders. These include the circumstances under which a violation of a protective order is a civil offense and the day on which a a cohabitant abuse protective order expires, among others. | |||||
| UT | HB 301 | Signed into law | 2021 | Pierucci | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Makes requirements for law enforcement to have training in recognizing domestic violence indicators and writing reports, among other things | |||||
| UT | SB 64 | Signed into law | 2021 | Iwamoto | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Modifies the circumstance under which a penalty for certain domestic violence offenses may be enhanced. | |||||
| UT | HB 208 | Signed into law | 2022 | Snow | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Creates a Domestic Violence Offender Treatment Board. | |||||
| UT | HB 228 | Signed into law | 2022 | Ivory | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Amends provisions related to reparations for crime victims. | |||||
| VT | HB 477 | Signed into law | 2022 | Grad | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Allows for leave for victims of stalking and abuse. | |||||
| VT | SB 157 | Failed | 2022 | Benning | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would allows for leave to attend court or deposition | |||||
| VT | HB 132 | Failed | 2021 | Grad | Not Specified |
| Description: Would restrict persons from possessing a firearm if the person is the subject of a final relief from abuse order. | |||||
| VT | HB 133 | Failed | 2021 | Grad | Not Specified |
| Description: Would allow for a court issuing an emergency relief from abuse order to require relinquishment of Defendant's firearms. | |||||
| VT | HB 272 | Failed | 2021 | Brennan | Not Specified |
| Description: Would restrict persons from possessing a firearm if the person has violated an abuse prevention order. | |||||
| VT | HB 663 | Failed | 2022 | Lefebvre | Not Specified |
| Description: Would make it a crime to make false statement in an affidavit or petition for relief from abuse | |||||
| VT | HB 470 | Failed | 2022 | Dolan | Not Specified |
| Description: Would permit referral of cases of domestic violence, sexual violence, or stalking to a community justice center. | |||||
| VT | HB 49 | Failed | 2021 | Townsend | Not Specified |
| Description: Would add psychological abuse as a basis for obtaining a civil abuse protection order. | |||||
| WA | HB 1916 | Failed | 2022 | Orwall | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would specify that the crime victim's bill of rights applies to any judicial proceeding and requires law enforcement training on victim-centered, trauma-informed approaches to responding to gender-based violence. | |||||
| WA | SB 5559 | Failed | 2022 | Van De Wege | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would allow an employee to accrue sick leave | |||||
| WA | HB 1320 | Signed into law | 2021 | Goodman | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Recodifies all of Washington's protection orders, meaning that many citations will need to be updated. Ordered the creation of a committee to draft a report about adding coercive control to the definition of domestic violence. | |||||
| WA | HB 1901 | Signed into law | 2022 | Goodman | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Among other things, this bill modifies the definition of domestic violence to include coercive control | |||||
| WA | HB 1315 | Signed into law | 2021 | Mosbrucker | Safe Workplaces |
| Description: Creates a task force to investigate the role of the workplace in preventing DV. | |||||
| WA | HB 1221 | Signed into law | 2021 | Rule | Not Specified |
| Description: For child welfare and dependency proceedings, "experiencing homelessness" is defined as lacking a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, including circumstances such as sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, fleeing domestic violence, or a similar reason | |||||
| WA | HB 1593 | Signed into law | 2022 | Leavitt | Rental Protections |
| Description: Gives landlords access to the landlord mitigation fund when a tenant breaks a lease due to DV/SA/harassment/stalking. This may reduce survivors responsibility to cover costs associated with property damage. | |||||
| WV | SB 4770 | Failed | 2022 | Linville | Not Specified |
| Description: Would recognize convictions of domestic battery in the fair and equitable distribution of marital property | |||||
| WV | SB 57 | Failed | 2021 | Sypolt | Not Specified |
| Description: Would make changes relating to staying civil actions resulting from domestic violence for 60 days from the date of entry of a final domestic violence protective order. | |||||
| WI | SB 1015 | Failed | 2021 | McQuire | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create another grant program for victim services | |||||
| WI | AB 1192 | Failed | 2022 | Anderson | Services and Protections for Undocumented Survivors |
| Description: Would adds citizenship or immigration status to the list of characteristics on which it is unlawful to discriminate in housing | |||||
| WI | SB 1037 | Failed | 2022 | Snyder | Not Specified |
| Description: Would expand the address confidentiality program | |||||
| WI | SB 153 | Failed | 2021 | Jacque | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would expand the crime victim bill of rights focused specifically on sexual assault survivors, but includes expansion of victim notification. | |||||
| WY | HB 0053 | Signed into law | 2022 | Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee | Not Specified |
| Description: This act addresses processes for reporting discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual assault involving the Wyoming National Guard or Wyoming Military Department. | |||||
| WY | HB 007 | Signed into law | 2022 | Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee | Not Specified |
| Description: Disqualifies commercial vehicle driving disqualification if someone uses a commercial motor vehicle in the commission of any felony involving human trafficking | |||||
| WY | HB 0088 | Signed into law | 2022 | Harshman | Not Specified |
| Description: Creates a name change notice requirements for minors. | |||||
| WY | SF 0058 | Signed into law | 2022 | Appropriations Committee | Safe Workplaces |
| Description: Creates the council for women's issues within the department of workforce services. | |||||
| TX | HB 1475 | Companion bill enacted | 2023 | Litigation Abuse Protections | |
| Description: Requires judges to be trained on family violence | |||||
| TX | HB 2229 | Companion bill enacted | 2023 | Goodwin | Not Specified |
| Description: Requires a notice given of services and programs available to survivors | |||||
| FL | HB 191 | Failed | 2023 | López | Not Specified |
| Description: Would provide certain low-income, female students who are pregnant as result of rape, incest, domestic violence, or human trafficking are exempt from paying specific post secondary tuition & fees. | |||||
| GA | HB 194 | Failed | 2023 | Hutchinson | Services and Protections for Undocumented Survivors |
| Description: Protects undocumented survivors who seek assistance from law enforcement for domestic violence from being charged or prosecuted due to their immigration status | |||||
| ME | SP 800 | Failed | 2023 | Daughtry | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would create a paid family and medical leave benefits program which includes safe leave for survivors | |||||
| MS | HB 170 | Failed | 2023 | Hines | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would have created a domestic abuse court | |||||
| MS | SB 2286 | Failed | 2023 | Butler | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would establish a paid family leave act | |||||
| MS | HB 971 | Failed | 2023 | Johnson | Not Specified |
| Description: Would make changes to income limits to the state's TANF program | |||||
| MS | SB 2208 | Failed | 2023 | Butler | Not Specified |
| Description: Would establish the Mississippi Affordable Child Care Act | |||||
| MS | HB 65 | Failed | 2023 | Porter | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would allow for a survivor to terminate a rental lease early | |||||
| NM | SB 11 | Failed | 2023 | Stewart | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would make changes to paid family and medical leave | |||||
| VA | HB 2135 | Failed | 2023 | Delaney | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would allow for a survivor to terminate a rental lease early | |||||
| FL | SB 1656 | Failed | 2023 | Stewart | Not Specified |
| Description: Would provide certain low-income, female students who are pregnant as result of rape, incest, domestic violence, or human trafficking are exempt from paying specific post secondary tuition & fees. | |||||
| ME | HP 824 | Failed | 2023 | Campbell | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would amend the Maine Bail Code | |||||
| VA | HB 713 | Failed | 2022 | Keam | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would define coercive control and make it a Class 1 misdemeanor | |||||
| AZ | SB 1295 | Held | 2023 | Marsh | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would clarify that domestic violence is not considered a public nuisance | |||||
| CA | AB 1082 | Held | 2023 | Kalra | Not Specified |
| Description: Would extend the number of unpaid parking tickets before a city can tow a car | |||||
| AZ | HB 2745 | Held | 2023 | Terech | Safe Workplaces |
| Description: Would require employers to provide reasonable accomodations to survivors | |||||
| AZ | SB 1644 | Held | 2023 | Burch | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would expand on current law to allow for a more expansive list of documentation such as letters from qualified 3rd parties; therapists, victim advocates, health professionals, and social workers as evidence | |||||
| CA | AB 1028 | Held | 2023 | McKinnor | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would end medical mandatory reporting for domestic violence related injuries, except those caused by a firearm | |||||
| AZ | HB 2130 | Held | 2023 | Salman | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would made changes to Arizona's family and medical leave policy | |||||
| AZ | SB 1568 | Held | 2023 | Terán | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would made changes to Arizona's family and medical leave policy | |||||
| NY | SB 3512 | In committee process | 2023 | Walker | Not Specified |
| Description: Would make changes to the state's voter registration act | |||||
| DC | Bill 25-42 | Introduced | 2023 | Nadeau | Not Specified |
| Description: Would eliminate mandatory 6-month or 1-year divorce waiting periods before a divorce is granted | |||||
| CT | HB 6629 | In committee process | 2023 | Garibay | Not Specified |
| Description: Would extend the time limit for TANF to sixty month | |||||
| CT | SB 1086 | In committee process | 2023 | Porter | Coerced and Fraudulent Debt Protections |
| Description: Would create protections against coerced debt | |||||
| CT | SB 1178 | In committee process | 2023 | Kushner | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would make changes to paid sick leave policy and expand to all workers regardless of the size/type of employer | |||||
| HI | HB 1179 | In committee process | 2023 | Takayama | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services | |||||
| HI | HB 1180 | In committee process | 2023 | Takayama | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services | |||||
| HI | HB 745 | In committee process | 2023 | Perruso | Not Specified |
| Description: Would prevent employers from pay discrimination on the basis of race, gender identity, status and a survivor, disability etc. | |||||
| HI | SB 892 | In committee process | 2023 | San Buenaventura | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services | |||||
| HI | HB 1199 | In committee process | 2023 | Mizuno | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would require law enforcement agencies to adopt and implement a written policy on domestic violence committed or allegedly committed by a law enforcement officer. Establishes standards, training deadlines, administrative procedures, and reporting requirements | |||||
| IL | HB 3697 | In committee process | 2023 | Lilly | Safe Workplaces |
| Description: Would provide that the notice to employees under the Act must include language encouraging employees to report to the employer the possibility of a domestic or intimate partner committing an act of violence at the workplace. | |||||
| IA | HB 547 | In committee process | 2023 | House Judiciary Committee | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would allow a survivor to terminate a rental lease early | |||||
| LA | HB 596 | In committee process | 2023 | Freeman | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would create the Louisiana Family and Medical Leave Act, including save leave for survivors | |||||
| ME | HP 757 | In committee process | 2023 | Arata | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create an Act to prevent Coerced Abortion | |||||
| MD | HB 324 | In committee process | 2023 | Lopez | Not Specified |
| Description: Would establish that neglect does not include certain behaviors as part of a victim of domestic violence | |||||
| MA | HB 249 | In committee process | 2023 | Barber | Not Specified |
| Description: Would mandate domestic violence and sexual assault awareness education for aestheticians, barbers, cosmetologists, electrologists, hairdressers, manicurists, and massage therapists | |||||
| MA | SB 1136 | In committee process | 2023 | Velis | Not Specified |
| Description: Would establish a task force to complete a systematic review of laws pertaining to domestic violence report and confidentiality | |||||
| MA | SB 146 | In committee process | 2023 | Creem | Not Specified |
| Description: Would mandate domestic violence and sexual assault awareness education for aestheticians, barbers, cosmetologists, electrologists, hairdressers, manicurists, and massage therapists | |||||
| MI | HJR E | In committee process | 2023 | Carra | Not Specified |
| Description: Would make an amendment to the state constitution to provide definition for certain laws, rules, and regulations that relate to an individual's sex and to impose certain protections | |||||
| MI | SB 332 | In committee process | 2023 | Geiss | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would make changes to State family leave program | |||||
| MN | HF 19 | In committee process | 2023 | Olson | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would establish rules related to earned sick and safe leave | |||||
| MN | HF 2413 | In committee process | 2023 | Norris | Coerced and Fraudulent Debt Protections |
| Description: Would allow those subjected to coerced debt to seek relief from such debt | |||||
| MN | SF 2712 | In committee process | 2023 | Gustafson | Coerced and Fraudulent Debt Protections |
| Description: Would allow those subjected to coerced debt to seek relief from such debt | |||||
| MN | SF 34 | In committee process | 2023 | Pappas | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would establish rules related to earned sick and safe leave | |||||
| MN | HF 1270 | In committee process | 2023 | Fredrick | Not Specified |
| Description: Would make changes to voting related provisions including voter registration, absentee voting, and restoring the right to vote for those with a felony conviction | |||||
| MN | SF 1546 | In committee process | 2023 | Cwodzinski | Not Specified |
| Description: Would make changes to voting related provisions including voter registration, absentee voting, and restoring the right to vote for those with a felony conviction | |||||
| MO | SB 548 | In committee process | 2023 | McCreery | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would create the Missouri Earned Family and Medical Leave Act | |||||
| MT | HB 386 | In committee process | 2023 | Howell | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would create paid sick leave policy that includes safe leave for survivors | |||||
| NV | AB 176 | In committee process | 2023 | Donate | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would prevent discrimination on the basis of "source of income" in housing protections | |||||
| NH | HB 261 | In committee process | 2023 | Read | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would allow for survivors to terminate a rental lease early | |||||
| NH | HB 549 | In committee process | 2023 | Testerman | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would expand the state's definition of abuse to include financial abuse coercive control | |||||
| NJ | AB 1924 | In committee process | 2022 | Swain | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require health insurance carriers to categorize mental health treatment and therapy received by a survivor as medically necessary treatment and provide full benefits coverage | |||||
| NJ | AB 1475 | In committee process | 2022 | Lopez | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would require courts to consider information concerning coercive control in DV related proceeding | |||||
| NJ | SB 1827 | In committee process | 2022 | Gopal | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require certain providers to perform IPV screenings and all health care professionals to take certain actions to prevent harm-doers from obtaining copies of a survivor's medical record | |||||
| NJ | AB 2280 | In committee process | 2022 | Murphy | Not Specified |
| Description: Would clarify that elder abuse in domestic settings is covered under the "Prevention of Domestic Violence Act of 1991" | |||||
| NJ | AB 3223 | In committee process | 2022 | Reynolds-Jackson | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require cosmetology and hairstyling licensees to complete DV sensitivity and response training | |||||
| NJ | AB 1704 | In committee process | 2023 | Speight | Services and Protections for Undocumented Survivors |
| Description: Would require DV protective orders to be issued in other languages in addition to English | |||||
| NJ | SB 1790 | In committee process | 2022 | Gopal | Not Specified |
| Description: Would expand eligibility under New Jersey earned income tax credit program to allow taxpayers who are survivors to claim credit with filing status of married filing separately | |||||
| NJ | AJR 15 | In committee process | 2022 | Murphy | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would create a New Jersey Domestic Violence and Legal Access Task Force to study the legal needs of survivors | |||||
| NJ | SB 3340 | In committee process | 2023 | Gopal | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would expand the school district employee sick leave policy that includes safe leave for survivors | |||||
| NJ | SB 3031 | In committee process | 2022 | Gopal | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require health insurance carriers to categorize mental health treatment and therapy received by a survivor as medically necessary treatment and provide full benefits coverage | |||||
| NJ | AB 1943 | In committee process | 2022 | Haider | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require certain providers to perform IPV screenings and all health care professionals to take certain actions to prevent harm-doers from obtaining copies of a survivor's medical record | |||||
| NJ | SB 1936 | In committee process | 2022 | Cruz-Perez | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create a Domestic Violence Tuition Waiver Program | |||||
| NJ | AB 1340 | In committee process | 2022 | Mosquera | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create a Domestic Violence Tuition Waiver Program | |||||
| NJ | AB 2531 | In committee process | 2022 | Murphy | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create incentives for business to support survivors | |||||
| NJ | SB 54 | In committee process | 2022 | Corrado | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would require judges and judicial personnel to be trained on domestic violence and sexual assault | |||||
| NJ | SB 3132 | In committee process | 2022 | Johnson | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would clarify that earned sick leave does not apply to certain workers in the concrete industry | |||||
| NJ | AB 4491 | In committee process | 2022 | Lopez | Safe Workplaces |
| Description: Would require employer to adopt workplace policies related to domestic violence including bystander intervention training | |||||
| NJ | SB 4054 | In committee process | 2022 | Greenstein | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would clarify that a survivor's statement regarding the need to take safe does not need to be notarized | |||||
| NJ | AB 4900 | In committee process | 2022 | Dunn | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would expand the state's definition of abuse to include psychological and economic abuse | |||||
| NJ | SB 1809 | In committee process | 2022 | Ruiz | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would add coercive control to the state's definition of domestic violence | |||||
| NJ | SB 3420 | In committee process | 2022 | Corrado | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would expand the state's definition of abuse to include psychological and economic abuse | |||||
| NJ | SB 1127 | In committee process | 2022 | Vitale | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require health insurance carriers to adhere to certain practices to protect health information related to sensitive services that includes services related to domestic violence | |||||
| NY | AB 4049 | In committee process | 2023 | Paulin | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would require the consideration of certain DV charges when imposing bail | |||||
| NY | AB 1692 | In committee process | 2023 | Rosenthall | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would require landlords to replace a lock on a tenant's dwelling door within 24 hours a related domestic violence incident | |||||
| NY | SB 7193 | In committee process | 2023 | Parker | Not Specified |
| Description: Would allow for a survivor to apply to remove a violent felony offender from deed of co-owned real property | |||||
| NY | AB 1113 | In committee process | 2023 | Stripe | Not Specified |
| Description: Would establish uniform waiting list priorities for domestic violence survivors applying for public housing | |||||
| NY | AB 1958 | In committee process | 2023 | Walker | Not Specified |
| Description: Would allow for a survivor to apply to remove a violent felony offender from deed of co-owned real property | |||||
| NY | AB 8018 | In committee process | 2023 | Forrest | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require DV and SA awareness training for licensing of esthetics and cosmetology | |||||
| NY | SB 4561A | In committee process | 2023 | Gonzalez | Not Specified |
| Description: Would provide internet access to all those residing in temporary housing | |||||
| NY | SB 936 | In committee process | 2023 | Bailey | Not Specified |
| Description: Would establish uniform waiting list priorities for domestic violence survivors applying for public housing | |||||
| NY | AB 3243 | In committee process | 2023 | Rajkumar | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would require employers to provide up to 10 additional days of unpaid safe leave | |||||
| NY | SB 7278 | In committee process | 2023 | Parker | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would make it unlawful to refuse to rent or lease housing due to credit history | |||||
| NY | SB 73949A | In committee process | 2023 | Gianaris | Not Specified |
| Description: Would establish early mail voting process | |||||
| NY | AB 405 | In committee process | 2023 | McMahon | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would make changes to health and mental health professional training including instructions on mandatory reporting of DV for health care workers | |||||
| NY | AB 1791 | In committee process | 2023 | Goodell | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would allow a landlord and employer to sue a harm-doer who suffer loss related to DV | |||||
| NY | AB 3984 | In committee process | 2023 | Rosenthall | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would prohibit landlords from refusing to rent or lease to someone solely because of a previous or current summary proceeding ex. eviction | |||||
| NY | AB 6011 | In committee process | 2023 | Maher | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would allow a landlord and employer to sue a harm-doer who suffer loss related to DV | |||||
| NY | SB 3251 | In committee process | 2023 | Salazar | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would create the housing for an equitable reentry and opportunity (HERO) Act that includes prohibiting housing discrimination for those with criminal legal system involvement | |||||
| NY | AB 4821 | In committee process | 2023 | Reyes | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Would create an unemployment bridge program | |||||
| NY | AB 3387 | In committee process | 2023 | Hevesi | Not Specified |
| Description: Would make changes to the state's office to end domestic and gender-based violence, including defining DV and GBV | |||||
| NY | AB 5455 | In committee process | 2023 | Smith | Not Specified |
| Description: Would protect a parent who is a survivor of domestic violence from having children removed from their custody if they reported the abuse | |||||
| NY | AB 5649 | In committee process | 2023 | Reyes | Not Specified |
| Description: Would provide internet access to all those residing in temporary housing | |||||
| NY | SB 2645 | In committee process | 2023 | Mattera | Not Specified |
| Description: Would disallow the suspension of a survivor's driver's license or registration for non-payment or lapse of insurance coverage | |||||
| NY | SB 3212 | In committee process | 2023 | Cleare | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require colleges and universities to include sexual harassment prevent and response policies and procedures | |||||
| NY | SB 5503 | In committee process | 2023 | Rosenthall | Not Specified |
| Description: Would provide internet access to all those residing in temporary housing | |||||
| NY | SB 6145 | In committee process | 2023 | Skoufis | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require DV and SA awareness training for licensing of esthetics and cosmetology | |||||
| NY | SB 7185 | In committee process | 2023 | Parker | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require the office for the prevention of domestic violence to conduct a study on domestic violence in the transgender community | |||||
| NY | SB 976 | In committee process | 2023 | Mattera | Not Specified |
| Description: Would protect a parent who is a survivor of domestic violence from having children removed from their custody if they reported the abuse | |||||
| NY | SB 5459 | In committee process | 2023 | Jackson | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Would create an unemployment bridge program | |||||
| NY | SB 3192 | In committee process | 2023 | Ramos | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Would create an unemployment bridge program | |||||
| NY | AB 8000 | In committee process | 2023 | Rajkumar | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would establish the right to unpaid leave for DV survivors to take up to 20 days of unpaid leave to address on-going DV | |||||
| NY | SB 2278 | In committee process | 2023 | Cleare | Coerced and Fraudulent Debt Protections |
| Description: Would create an option for a survivor to seek relief from coerced debt | |||||
| NY | SB 6836 | In committee process | 2023 | Parker | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would establish the right to unpaid leave for DV survivors to take up to 20 days of unpaid leave to address on-going DV | |||||
| NY | AB 636 | In committee process | 2023 | Rozic | Services and Protections for Undocumented Survivors |
| Description: Would prohibit law enforcement from inquiring and disclosing the immigration status of a survivor | |||||
| NY | AB 7632A | In committee process | 2023 | Reyes | Not Specified |
| Description: Would establish early mail voting process | |||||
| NC | SB 700 | In committee process | 2023 | Woodard | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Would increase the benefit amount and number of weeks someone can recieve benefits | |||||
| NC | HB 339 | In committee process | 2023 | Roberson | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create a grant program and appropriate funds to be allocated to support male survivors | |||||
| NC | HB 541 | In committee process | 2023 | Harrison | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create the Economic Security Act that includes increasing the minimum wage, equal pay, and paid sick and medical leave | |||||
| NC | SB 575 | In committee process | 2023 | Marcus | Not Specified |
| Description: Would allow survivors to divorce a spouse who is a harm-doer without having to meet the one-year period of separations | |||||
| NC | HB 561 | In committee process | 2023 | Brown | Coerced and Fraudulent Debt Protections |
| Description: Would create the North Carolina Coerced Debt Relief Act | |||||
| NC | HB 817 | In committee process | 2023 | Brown | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would create an earned paid sick leave policy which includes safe leave for survivors | |||||
| NC | HB 841 | In committee process | 2023 | Quick | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would create an earned paid sick leave policy which includes safe leave for survivors | |||||
| OH | HB 143 | In committee process | 2023 | Grim | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would exclude calls to law enforcement related to SA and DV from "nuisance" | |||||
| OR | HB 2217 | In committee process | 2023 | Mannix | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would allow for a landlord to terminate month to month residential tenancies without cause and repeal limits on increases to rent | |||||
| OR | HB 3064 | In committee process | 2023 | Reschke | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would allow for a landlord to terminate month to month residential tenancies without cause | |||||
| OR | SB 744 | In committee process | 2023 | Woods | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would allow landlord and tenant to agree to assessment of charge instead of security deposit | |||||
| OR | SB 799 | In committee process | 2023 | House and Development | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would require landlord to extend notice periods for terminations | |||||
| OR | HB 2208 | In committee process | 2023 | Smith | Not Specified |
| Description: Would make changes to mail in voting process including requiring that ballots must be received by the date of election | |||||
| OR | SB 1039 | In committee process | 2023 | Sollman | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Would make changes to state Crime Victims Compensation Program, including an exemption in reporting to law enforcement requirement for domestic violence survivors | |||||
| OR | SB 481 | In committee process | 2023 | Bonham | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would make changes to the state's unpaid family and medical leave policy by expanding the definition of family member | |||||
| PA | HB 238 | In committee process | 2023 | Hill-Evans | Not Specified |
| Description: Would allow for a survivor to opt out of a shared telecommunications plan with a harm-doer without charge | |||||
| PA | HB 1441 | In committee process | 2023 | Borowski | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would allow for a survivor to terminate a rental lease early | |||||
| PA | HB 1446 | In committee process | 2023 | Mackenzie | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Would allow for survivors to be eligible for unemployment insurance | |||||
| PA | HB 756 | In committee process | 2023 | Keefer | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Would allow for survivors to be eligible for unemployment insurance | |||||
| SC | HB 3573 | In committee process | 2023 | Thigpen | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would allow for a survivor to terminate a rental lease early | |||||
| SC | SB 4158 | In committee process | 2023 | Pendarvis | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would allow for a survivor to terminate a rental lease early | |||||
| TX | SB 631 | In committee process | 2023 | Menédez | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Would allow survivors of sexual harassment to be eligible for unemployment insurance | |||||
| TX | HB 864 | In committee process | 2022 | Hernandez | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Would allow survivors of sexual harassment to be eligible for unemployment insurance | |||||
| TX | HB 250 | In committee process | 2022 | González | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Would make changes to state's crime victims compensation program including adding that a dependent of a crime victim may receive a one time payment for relocation expenses | |||||
| TX | HB 798 | In committee process | 2022 | Collier | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Would make changes to the state's crime victims compensation program including adding relocation expenses for survivors of family violence, SA and HT or a child who is a victim of a murder attempt | |||||
| TX | HB 2877 | In committee process | 2023 | Morales | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Would make changes to the state's crime victims compensation program including adding relocation expenses for survivors of family violence, SA and HT or a child who is a victim of a murder attempt | |||||
| TX | SB 49 | In committee process | 2022 | González | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Would make changes to state crime victims compensation program including adding that a dependent of a crime victim may receive a one time payment for relocation expenses | |||||
| TX | HB 1697 | In committee process | 2023 | Collier | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Would make changes crime victims compensation program definition of household member | |||||
| TX | HB 1380 | In committee process | 2023 | Hernandez | Not Specified |
| Description: Would require continuing education on SA, DV and HT for barbers and cosmetologists | |||||
| TX | HB 1011 | In committee process | 2022 | Criado | Services and Protections for Undocumented Survivors |
| Description: Would prohibit those employed at a domestic violence shelter from assisting or cooperating with federal immigration officers | |||||
| TX | HB 307 | In committee process | 2022 | Bernal | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would require certain employers to provide paid sick leave, including safe leave for survivors | |||||
| TX | HB 4641 | In committee process | 2023 | Meyer | Coerced and Fraudulent Debt Protections |
| Description: Would prevent a creditor to collect on debt from a survivor incurred by a harm-doer through identity theft | |||||
| TX | HB 494 | In committee process | 2022 | Meza | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would create family and medical leave including safe leave for survivors | |||||
| TX | HB 893 | In committee process | 2022 | Reynolds | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would require certain employers to provide paid sick leave including safe leave for survivors | |||||
| TX | SB 836 | In committee process | 2023 | Zaffirini | Coerced and Fraudulent Debt Protections |
| Description: Would prevent a creditor to collect on debt from a survivor incurred by a harm-doer through identity theft | |||||
| TX | SB 2298 | In committee process | 2023 | Gutierrez | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Would make changes to the state's crime victims compensation program including adding relocation expenses for survivors of family violence, SA and HT or a child who is a victim of a murder attempt | |||||
| TX | HB 79 | In committee process | 2022 | Talarico | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would create protected safe leave for survivors | |||||
| VT | SB 27 | In committee process | 2023 | Hinsdale | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would eliminate cash bail | |||||
| VT | HB 66 | In committee process | 2023 | Kornheiser | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would create family and medical leave including safe leave for survivors | |||||
| VT | HB 92 | In committee process | 2023 | Mulvaney-Stanak | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Would expand unemployment insurance eligibility for survivors | |||||
| VT | SB 129 | In committee process | 2023 | Vyhovsky | Safe Workplaces |
| Description: Would prevent employers from conducting criminal history record checks, credit checks, and drug testing for employees and prospective employees | |||||
| VT | SB 62 | In committee process | 2023 | Hinsdale | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would create family and medical leave including safe leave for survivors | |||||
| VA | HB 1651 | In committee process | 2023 | Price | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would prevent a landlord from obtaining a credit report or other background investigation of a rental applicant under certain conditions | |||||
| WA | HB 1045 | In committee process | 2022 | Berry | Guaranteed Income for Survivors |
| Description: Would create a basic income pilot program | |||||
| WA | SB 5270 | In committee process | 2023 | Saldaña | Services and Protections for Undocumented Survivors |
| Description: Would prevent law enforcement from making or assisting with immigration related arrests, detention, transfer, interrogation or deportation | |||||
| WV | HB 2417 | In committee process | 2023 | Pushkin | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would create a pilot domestic violence court in Kanawha County | |||||
| WV | HB 3137 | In committee process | 2023 | Ridenour | Services and Protections for Undocumented Survivors |
| Description: Would make undocumented human trafficking survivors ineligible for restitution | |||||
| CA | AB 56 | In committee process | 2023 | Lackey | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Would add the ability for survivors to get compensation for emotional related injuries due to murder, rape, sexual assault, mayhem, and stalking | |||||
| CA | SB 245 | In committee process | 2023 | Hurtado | Services and Protections for Undocumented Survivors |
| Description: Would expand eligibility to CA food assistance program to those under the age of 55 | |||||
| CT | SB 906 | In committee process | 2023 | Nolan | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would prevent a landlord from discriminating against someone based on their status as a survivor | |||||
| KY | HB 69 | In committee process | 2023 | Stevenson | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would require employers to provide earned paid sick leave. Sick leave would include circumstances related to domestic violence | |||||
| LA | SR 150 | In committee process | 2023 | Barrows | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would request the Louisiana State Law Institute to study and make recommendations on the general provisions of justification and use of force or violence in defense as applies to survivors to domestic violence, intimate violence, and sexual violence,. | |||||
| MA | HB 3913 | In committee process | 2023 | Williams | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create an Act relative to missing Black women and girls | |||||
| MA | HB 1919 | In committee process | 2023 | McKenna | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would allow for contract workers to take up to 15 days of leave from work if they have been subjected to abusive behavior, including domestic violence | |||||
| MA | SB 1055 | In committee process | 2023 | Montigny | Not Specified |
| Description: Would allow the court to consider domestic violence in determining alimony payments | |||||
| MA | HB 1547 | In committee process | 2023 | Higgins | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would expand state's definition of abuse to include coercive control | |||||
| MA | HB 1655 | In committee process | 2023 | Livingstone | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would make additional to Rental Protections for survivors | |||||
| MA | HB 1918 | In committee process | 2023 | Livingstone | Safe Workplaces |
| Description: Would require employer to provide survivors with reasonable accomodations | |||||
| MA | SB 1077 | In committee process | 2023 | Moore | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would expand state's definition of abuse to include coercive control | |||||
| MA | SB 1152 | In committee process | 2023 | Creem | Safe Workplaces |
| Description: Would require employer to provide survivors with reasonable accomodations | |||||
| MA | SB 1166 | In committee process | 2023 | Fattman | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would allow for contract workers to take up to 15 days of leave from work if they have been subjected to abusive behavior, including domestic violence | |||||
| MO | HB 1126 | In committee process | 2023 | Walsh Moore | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would create the Missouri Earned Family and Medical Leave Act | |||||
| NJ | SB 1518 | In committee process | 2022 | Greenstein | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would expand current Rental Protections to prevent a survivor from being evicted | |||||
| NJ | AB 2526 | In committee process | 2022 | Murphy | Not Specified |
| Description: Would allow the court to issue an order directing a wireless telephone service provider to transfer a survivor's phone number to that survivor along with any billing rights | |||||
| NJ | SB 3701 | In committee process | 2022 | Singleton | Not Specified |
| Description: Would allow the court to issue an order directing a wireless telephone service provider to transfer a survivor's phone number to that survivor along with any billing rights | |||||
| NJ | AB 4631 | In committee process | 2022 | Wimberly | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would clarify that earned sick leave does not apply to certain workers in the concrete industry | |||||
| NJ | SJR 67 | In committee process | 2022 | Cruz-Perez | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would create a New Jersey Domestic Violence and Legal Access Task Force to study the legal needs of survivors | |||||
| NJ | SB 1250 | In committee process | 2022 | Greenstein | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would allow long-term care facility employees to accrue paid sick leave | |||||
| NJ | SB 362 | In committee process | 2022 | Gill | Safe Workplaces |
| Description: Would establish work scheduling protections and standards for all employees | |||||
| NJ | AB 2668 | In committee process | 2022 | Mosquera | Not Specified |
| Description: Would exempt harm-doers from receiving alimony if convicted of a crime or offense involving domestic violence | |||||
| NJ | AB 2521 | In committee process | 2022 | Murphy | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would expand current Rental Protections to prevent a survivor from being evicted | |||||
| NY | SB 1822 | In committee process | 2023 | Stavisky | Services and Protections for Undocumented Survivors |
| Description: Would create penalties for coercive threat so expose immigration status of witnesses and DV survivors | |||||
| NY | AB 1134 | In committee process | 2023 | Rozic | Services and Protections for Undocumented Survivors |
| Description: Would create penalties for coercive threat so expose immigration status of witnesses and DV survivors | |||||
| NY | SB 2061 | In committee process | 2023 | Stavisky | Services and Protections for Undocumented Survivors |
| Description: Would prohibit law enforcement from inquiring and disclosing the immigration status of a survivor | |||||
| NY | SB 5973 | In committee process | 2023 | Ashby | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would eliminate bail for all offenses | |||||
| NY | AB 4959 | In committee process | 2023 | Solages | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would create the housing for an equitable reentry and opportunity (HERO) Act that includes prohibiting housing discrimination for those with criminal legal system involvement | |||||
| OR | HB 3114 | In committee process | 2023 | Kropf | Not Specified |
| Description: Would prohibit hotelkeeper or innkeeper from requiring qualified victim services program that facilitates reservation or rental of guest room in hotel or inn to disclose personal information of victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking. | |||||
| TX | HB 528 | In committee process | 2022 | Wu | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would allow survivor to take protected safe leave | |||||
| VT | HB 88 | In committee process | 2023 | Bos-Lun | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would eliminate cash bail | |||||
| OK | HB 2256 | Introduced | 2023 | Dobrinski | Not Specified |
| Description: Would create the Domestic Violence Reform Act | |||||
| DE | HB 151 | Pending | 2023 | Morrison | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would expand the definition of abuse to include economic abuse tactics | |||||
| AL | SB 14 | Signed into law | 2023 | Chambliss | Not Specified |
| Description: No costs or fees shall be assessed for filing a motion for contempt by a party seeking enforcement of a previously entered protection from abuse judgement | |||||
| AR | HB 1401 | Signed into law | 2023 | Burkes | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Accessibility |
| Description: Reduces the time limit for TANF recipients to receive program benefits from 24 months to 12 months | |||||
| CT | SB 1118 | Signed into law | 2023 | Gatson | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Establishes the Domestic Violence Criminal Justice Response and Enhancement Advisory Council | |||||
| DE | HB 184 | Signed into law | 2023 | Romer | Safe Workplaces |
| Description: Provides employers with the option to require verification in order to receive accommodations | |||||
| ID | SB 1019 | Signed into law | 2023 | Commerce and Human Resources Committee | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Allows survivors how musty leave or quit their job due to domestic violence to still remain eligible for Unemployment insurance | |||||
| MD | HB 186 | Signed into law | 2023 | Barnes | Not Specified |
| Description: Requires the Office of Crime Prevention, Youth and Victim Services to help support certain programs providing services for victims of crime | |||||
| MD | HB 630 | Signed into law | 2023 | Queen | Not Specified |
| Description: Allows for a survivors to terminate a utility account and future liability | |||||
| MD | SB 622 | Signed into law | 2023 | Zucker | Not Specified |
| Description: Requires certain Medicaid funding to be used to provide community services to individuals waiting for services through certain waiver programs | |||||
| MN | HF 2 | Signed into law | 2023 | Richardson | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Established a paid family and medical leave policy, including safe leave for survivors | |||||
| MT | HB 183 | Signed into law | 2023 | Nicol | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Increases the Crime Victims Compensation program refundable funeral expenses from $3.5k to $10k | |||||
| NV | AB 51 | Signed into law | 2023 | House Judiciary Committee | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Makes changes to the mandatory arrest time frame for domestic violence related incidents | |||||
| NV | AB 163 | Signed into law | 2023 | Gonzalez | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Adds survivors of sexual assault to current workplace protections and safe leave policies | |||||
| NJ | AB 5060 | Signed into law | 2023 | Reynolds-Jackson | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would expand the school district employee sick leave policy that includes safe leave for survivors | |||||
| NM | HB 139 | Signed into law | 2023 | Cadena | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would eliminate court fees | |||||
| NY | SB 1344 | Signed into law | 2023 | Parker | Not Specified |
| Description: Clarifies the process for the release from utility, phone, and television contract for DV survivors | |||||
| NY | AB 998 | Signed into law | 2023 | Rosenthall | Not Specified |
| Description: Clarifies the process for the release from utility, phone, and television contract for DV survivors | |||||
| ND | HB 1533 | Signed into law | 2023 | Boschee | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Creates protections against litigation abuse | |||||
| OK | HB 2242 | Signed into law | 2023 | Dobrinski | Not Specified |
| Description: Allows for survivors to be exempted from credit and deposit requirements by the public utility | |||||
| OR | SB 210 | Signed into law | 2023 | None | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Creates exception to certain confidentiality protections to authorize Department of Human Services employees to comply with mandatory abuse reporting requirements | |||||
| OR | HB 3443 | Signed into law | 2023 | Pham | Rental Protections |
| Description: Expands current Rental Protections to include 'bias crime' | |||||
| RI | HB 5883 | Signed into law | 2023 | Kazarian | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Established protections against litigation abuse for survivors | |||||
| RI | SB 604 | Signed into law | 2023 | Euer | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Established protections against litigation abuse for survivors | |||||
| TN | SB 979 | Signed into law | 2023 | Gardenhire | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Expands state's definition of abuse to include financial abuse | |||||
| TX | SB 1325 | Signed into law | 2023 | Alvarado | Not Specified |
| Description: Requires a notice given of services and programs available to survivors | |||||
| TX | SB 855 | Signed into law | 2023 | Alvarado | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Requires judges to be trained on family violence | |||||
| UT | HB 468 | Signed into law | 2023 | Judkins | Safe Workplaces |
| Description: Prevents employers from using history background checks in certain conditions | |||||
| UT | HB 314 | Signed into law | 2023 | Judkins | Rental Protections |
| Description: Allows a survivor who terminates a rental lease early not to be held additional fees or future payments | |||||
| VT | HB 45 | Signed into law | 2023 | Donnally | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Creates Litigation Abuse Protections for survivors | |||||
| UT | HB 537 | Signed into law | 2023 | Kera | Not Specified |
| Description: Make changes to mail-in voting process and voter registration | |||||
| VT | SB 28 | Companion bill enacted | 2023 | White | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would create protections against litigation abuse | |||||
| AZ | SB 2108 | Vetoed | 2023 | Livingston | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Would require those receiving unemployment benefits to conduct at least five work search actions each week | |||||
| MO | HB 673 | Withdrawn | 2023 | Walsh Moore | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would create the Missouri Earned Family and Medical Leave Act | |||||
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