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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 EquityIssues 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