New York K 962: Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim June 2020 as African American Music Appreciation Month in the State of New York

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K00962 Summary:

BILL NOK00962 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORGonzalez-Rojas

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MLTSPNSRBurdick, Buttenschon, Griffin, Hevesi, Kassay, Kay, Kelles, Levenberg, Lunsford, Lupardo, McDonald,
 Pheffer Amato, Santabarbara, Seawright, Shimsky, Simon

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BILL NOK00962 

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02/23/2026referred to calendar

02/24/2026adopted

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Assembly Resolution No. 962

BY: M. of A. Gonzalez-Rojas

 MEMORIALIZING Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim
 February 24, 2026, as Domestic Violence Awareness
 and Prevention Day in the State of New York

 WHEREAS, Domestic violence is a pattern of coercive behavior and
tactics used by someone against their intimate partner in an attempt to
gain or maintain power and control, and types of abuse can include
physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, technological and economic
abuse or threats of actions or other patterns of coercive behavior that
influence another person within an intimate partner relationship; and

 WHEREAS, Domestic violence is not limited to specific groups based
on race, socioeconomic status, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation,
ethnicity, age, religious affiliation or social location, but rather is
perpetrated by abusers from all social groups; and

 WHEREAS, On average, 24 people per minute are victims of rape,
physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in the United
States-more than 12 million people over the course of a year; and

 WHEREAS, On average, about one in four women and one in ten men
experience contact sexual violence, physical violence and/or stalking by
an intimate partner and reported an IPV-related impact during their
lifetime, and approximately 1.5 million women and 835,000 men are raped
and/or physically assaulted by an intimate partner each year in the
United States; and

 WHEREAS, Due to systemic racism, racist policies and racist societal
structures, both Black women and Black men experience intimate partner
violence at a disproportionately high rate with 45 percent of Black
women and 40 percent of Black men experiencing intimate partner physical
violence, intimate partner sexual violence and/or intimate partner
stalking in their lifetimes; and

 WHEREAS, Domestic violence affects the LGBTQ+ community at a rate
equal to or even greater than that experienced by the cisgender,
heterosexual community, with 43.8 percent of lesbian women and 26
percent of gay men experiencing rape, physical violence and/or stalking
by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime, and 54 percent
of the transgender and gender non-conforming community have reported
experiencing some form of intimate partner violence, with transgender
women of color experiencing heightened levels of violence; and

 WHEREAS, According to a study from the National Institute of
Justice, more than half of Native American and Alaska Native women have
experienced physical violence at the hands of an intimate partner; and

 WHEREAS, Among high school students who dated, nearly 21 percent of
females and 10.4 percent of males experienced some form of teen dating
violence within the past 12 months of the survey, and 43 percent of
dating college women report experiencing violent or abusive behaviors
from their partner; and

 WHEREAS, Researchers estimate that between 3.3 million and 10
million children are exposed to adult intimate partner violence each
year and observing intimate partner violence in childhood increases the
risk of later perpetration for men by an estimated 56 or 63 percent,
depending on severity; and

 WHEREAS, Domestic violence survivors experience a host of physical
and mental health-related consequences at far greater rates than their
counterparts who have not been abused; and

 WHEREAS, According to an annual survey conducted by the National
Network to End Domestic Violence, New York State consistently has the
greatest demand for domestic violence services in the country with
10,609 survivors requesting services on just one day in 2024, and 1,717
unfulfilled service requests on that same day because of insufficient
resources or staff; and

 WHEREAS, In 2024, there were 241,351 orders of