Bill Text: NY A01936 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits state contracts with contractors who do not provide health insurance which covers services for transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive people.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A01936 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01936-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1936

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GONZALEZ-ROJAS,  ZEBROWSKI  -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to  participation  in
          state contracts

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

     1    Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  139-m to read as follows:
     3    §  139-m.  Participation  in  contract  prohibited;  health insurance;
     4  transgender status. 1. A clause shall be inserted in all  specifications
     5  or  contracts  hereafter  made  or  awarded  by  the state or any public
     6  department, agency or official thereof, for work or  services  performed
     7  or  to  be performed, for goods sold or to be sold pursuant to which any
     8  contractor, to whom any contract  shall  be  let,  granted  or  awarded,
     9  agrees,  as  a  material  condition  of  the contract, that neither such
    10  contractor nor any substantially owned or affiliated person, firm, part-
    11  nership or corporation has participated or  is  participating  or  shall
    12  participate  in  a health plan offered which does not cover services for
    13  transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive people, including but  not
    14  limited  to  hormone  replacement therapy, gender-affirming surgery, and
    15  treatment typically associated with one particular gender.
    16    2. Any such contract shall be rendered forfeit and void by  the  state
    17  comptroller, if, subsequent to execution, such person, firm, partnership
    18  or corporation has been participating in such health plan which fails to
    19  provide  services  for  transgender,  non-binary,  and  gender expansive
    20  people.
    21    3. Nothing contained in this  section  shall  operate  to  impair  any
    22  existing contract, except that any renewal, amendment or modification of
    23  such  contract  occurring on or after the effective date of this section
    24  shall be subject to the conditions specified in this section.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    4. The comptroller of the state shall have the power  to  issue  rules
     2  and regulations pursuant to this section.
     3    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law and shall apply to all contracts entered into, renewed
     5  or modified on and after the effective date of this act.