(Kansas) City approves criteria for domestic partners to get benefits

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http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/6749494.htm

City approves criteria for domestic partners to get benefits
By MATT CAMPBELL
The Kansas City Star

The Kansas City Council on Thursday approved criteria for unmarried city employees living in domestic partnerships to qualify for benefits.

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The registry will allow same-sex couples or opposite-sex couples who are not married to share certain city employment benefits. Initially those will be limited to sick leave to care for the partner or the partner's dependents and funeral leave. The city will explore adding health benefits later.

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Partners must have resided together for at least one year, must intend to do so permanently and must be each other's sole domestic partner.

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Gotta say, I am surprised and pleased. Missouri is way behind much of the nation in terms of its social systems. This is a nice step forward, even if it's a good ten years behind the cities that started this originally, like San Francisco.

Dirk

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1. KC changed a week or so ago.

I think that KC got Bush and Bushism stuck in it's craw when Dubya
showed up to blow sunshine of KC's ass. We are Missourians, and we outgrew happy talk in the 19th. Century. Remember us George? We are the folks who brought you Harry Truman!