Expanding protections for victims of domestic violence to include economic abuse.

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to expanding protections for victims of domestic violence to include economic abuse

This bill would amend the definition of the term “victim of domestic violence” under the New York City Human Rights Law (HRL) to recognize economic abuse as a form of domestic violence and would extend existing protections for domestic violence victims to those who have experienced economic abuse. Economic abuse would include behavior that is coercive, deceptive or unreasonably controls or restrains a person’s ability to acquire, use or maintain economic resources to which they are entitled.