Domestic Partner Pension Bill Heads To Calif. Assembly Vote

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Legislation to allow hundreds of California state workers who retired prior to January 1, 2005 to take advantage of the state's Domestic Partnership law is heading to a full vote in the Assembly.

Under the Partnership law same-sex couples have many of the same rights as California offers married couples, but it does not cover civil servants who retired prior to the law coming into effect.

The bill proposed by LGBT Caucus Chair Senator Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica) would allow those older pensioners and their partners or survivors to be included