NYC council overrides Bloomberg veto on domestic partner benefits law
Overriding another of New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's vetoes, the City Council voted yesterday to require that companies doing business with the city offer equal benefits to the domestic partners of their employees. The override, approved by 41 of the Council's 51 members, clears the way for New York to join a handful of other large cities that require businesses seeking municipal contracts to extend to same-sex couples the same family health insurance benefits provided to other workers. Alan Van Capelle, executive director of the Empire State Pride Agenda, a gay and lesbian civil rights group, called yesterday "the greatest day ever" for same-sex couples in New York.
New York Times
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