Bill Text: NY A03487 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to permitting combination last name changes to occur when separated by a space, currently it is only allowed if separated by a hyphen.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 27-2)
Status: (Passed) 2019-11-20 - signed chap.497 [A03487 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03487-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3487 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 29, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law, in relation to permitting combination last name changes to occur when separated by a space The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Clause (iv) of subparagraph 3 of paragraph (b) of subdivi- 2 sion 1 of section 15 of the domestic relations law, as added by chapter 3 583 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows: 4 (iv) a combination name separated by a hyphen or space, provided that 5 each part of such combination surname is the premarriage surname, or any 6 former surname, of each of the spouses. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01328-01-9