Bill Text: NY A09898 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires an "X" gender marker to be included in documents that request that a person identify their gender or sex utilized by state agencies, public authorities and municipalities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-26 - referred to governmental operations [A09898 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09898-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9898

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 26, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. SIMONE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law and the general municipal law, in
          relation to requiring an "X" gender marker to be included  in  certain
          documents  utilized  by state agencies, public authorities and munici-
          palities

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 170-h
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 170-h. Gender markers in state and  municipal  forms.  Any  form  or
     4  preprinted document utilized by a state agency or public authority or by
     5  a  municipality that requests that a person identify their gender or sex
     6  shall include, in addition to male and female  gender  markers,  an  "X"
     7  gender  marker  to be available for utilization by any person completing
     8  the form who does not identify as male or female. Any form or preprinted
     9  document requesting that a person identify their gender or sex shall  be
    10  amended no later than January first, two thousand twenty-five to include
    11  such "X" gender marker.
    12    §  2.  The  general  municipal  law is amended by adding a new section
    13  99-aa to read as follows:
    14    § 99-aa. Gender markers in municipal forms.   Any form  or  preprinted
    15  document utilized by a municipal corporation that requests that a person
    16  identify  their  gender  or  sex  shall include, in addition to male and
    17  female gender markers, an "X" gender marker to be available for utiliza-
    18  tion by any person completing the form who does not identify as male  or
    19  female.  The  governing  board of each municipal corporation shall amend
    20  any form or preprinted document requesting that a person identify  their
    21  gender  or  sex no later than January first, two thousand twenty-five to
    22  include such "X" gender marker.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03261-03-4