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Int 2254-2021

Text message hotline for survivors of domestic and gender-based violence.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Women and Gender Equityintroduced 2021-04-22

Filed — closed without being enacted.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 2021-04-22Passed: 2021-12-31

Summary

This bill would require the Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence to implement a text messaging system for providing its hotline services. The text message communications would remain confidential.

Committee on Women and Gender Equity — Issues relating to advancing the economic mobility, social inclusion, leadership and civic participation of women and girls, domestic violence, Office to End Gender-Based Violence and the Commission on Gender Equity.

How it compares

54% of similar bills passed

27 passed · 23 died

This bill: 253 days in committee

Similar bills: median 331 days · 153 days when passed

Sponsors (1)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2021-04-22 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2021-04-22 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2021-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (1)

City Council · 2021-04-22 · 1:30 PM · - REMOTE HEARING (VIRTUAL ROOM 1) -

Attachments (5)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 3 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 3-174 to read as follows: � 3-174 Text message hotline. The office shall implement a system to provide domestic and gender-based violence hotline services by text message. Such text message communications shall remain confidential. � 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes local law except that the director of the office to end domestic and gender-based violence may take such measures as are necessary for its implementation before such date. JG LS # 14914 6/25/20 2:23 PM 1 1