Bill Text: NY A08241 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires all municipalities to update all applicable forms and data systems to include a gender "x" option.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-21 - reported referred to ways and means [A08241 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08241-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8241--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 6, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. BURDICK, LEVENBERG, SEAWRIGHT, EPSTEIN, GONZA-
          LEZ-ROJAS, GLICK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  SHIMSKY  --  read
          once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on Governmental Operations --
          recommitted to the Committee on Governmental Operations in  accordance
          with  Assembly  Rule  3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
          again  reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to requiring all muni-
          cipalities to update all applicable forms and data systems to  include
          a gender "x" option

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

     1    Section 1.  The civil rights law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  79-r to read as follows:
     3    § 79-r. Collection of gender or sex designation information by munici-
     4  palities.  1. All New York state municipalities that collect demographic
     5  information about a person's gender or sex shall make available  to  the
     6  person at the point of data collection an option to mark their gender or
     7  sex as "x".
     8    2.  All municipalities shall update any applicable physical and online
     9  forms or data systems in the regular course of business  including,  but
    10  not limited to:
    11    (a)  updating printed forms to include the gender "x" option when such
    12  forms are being reordered;
    13    (b)  updating  websites,  webpages,  public  facing  online   internet
    14  services  to  include the gender "x" option when such websites, webpages
    15  and  public facing online internet services are being updated; and
    16    (c) updating any links  or  other  forms  of  sharing  when  websites,
    17  webpages  or  other  public  facing  online  internet services are being
    18  updated to reflect forms that have the gender "x" option.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13246-07-4