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D.C. City Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) co-sponsored last week's D.C. domestic partnership bill. Evans said the bill amounts to a 'de facto civil unions' law for the District. (Blade file photo by Henry Linser)
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By: LOU CHIBBARO J COMMENTS
 
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same-sex marriage because they believe Congress would immediately step in to overturn a same-sex marriage law. The groups have said they support same-sex marriage on principle but don’t think it’s possible in D.C. in the near future.
D.C. Council Bill 17-135 (Omnibus Domestic Partnership Equality Amendment Act of 2008)
1. Amends General Legislative Procedures Act of 1975 to clarify that step relationships include relationships created by a domestic partnership registration.
2. Amends D.C. Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978 to include a domestic partner in the definition of relative in the career and education services and to allow domestic partners to be included in employee’s health insurance, disability compensation and retirement.
3. Amends D.C. Retirement Reform Act to include domestic partners as parties in interest.
4. Amends Police Officers, Fire Fighters and Teachers Retirement Benefit Replace-ment Plan Act of 1998 to include domestic partners as parties in interest.
5. Amends D.C. Campaign Finance Reform and Conflict of Interest Act to include domestic partner in the definition of immediate family.
6. Amends D.C. Human Rights Act of 1977 to include domestic partner in the definition of family member.
7. Amends the Act for the Promotion of Anatomical Science to prevent the desecration of graves in the District of Columbia to grant domestic partners standing as related to the deceased to provide for funerals that would otherwise be held at public expense.
8. Amends the Boxing and Wrestling Commission Act of 1975 to preclude a commissioner from acting where it might affect the financial interest of his or her domestic partner.
9. Amends D.C. Health Occupations Revisions Act of 1985 to include domestic partner within the definition of household member.
10. Amends the Law to Legalize Lotteries, Daily Numbers, Games and Bingo and Raffles for Charitable Purposes in the District of Columbia to exclude domestic partners of certain persons from eligibility for prizes of providing supplies.
11. Amends the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Act of 1977 to exclude domestic partner privilege from testimony concerning the welfare of or the removal of parental rights of a neglected child.
12. Amends “An Act” to provide for the mandatory reporting by physicians and institutions in the District of Columbia of certain physical abuse of children to provide that the domestic partner privilege shall not be grounds for excluding evidence in neglect proceedings.
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