Bill Text: NY A06668 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires any entity doing business in this state and engaged in the business of mass-transportation of the general public on an airplane, railroad train, bus or cruise ship to update its reservation, ticketing and check-in website applications to include an additional gender marker option to allow travelers to select their gender based on self-attestation, regardless of the sex assigned at birth; provides exceptions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A06668 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06668-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6668

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          certain  mass transit providers to provide an additional gender option
          on systems used for reservations, ticketing and check-in in  order  to
          accurately reflect a traveler's gender

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

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  128 to read as follows:
     3    § 128. Ticketing gender options. 1. Notwithstanding any law,  rule  or
     4  regulation  to  the  contrary, no later than January first, two thousand
     5  twenty-four, any entity doing business in this state and engaged in  the
     6  business  of  mass-transportation  of the general public on an airplane,
     7  railroad train, bus or cruise ship shall update its reservation, ticket-
     8  ing and check-in website applications to include  an  additional  gender
     9  marker  option  to  allow transgender, gender non-binary and gender non-
    10  conforming travelers to select their gender based  on  self-attestation,
    11  regardless  of  the  sex assigned at birth. The additional gender option
    12  may be specified as "Unspecified", "Undisclosed" or "X", or any combina-
    13  tion thereof.
    14    2. The provisions of this section shall not apply to:
    15    a. any governmental entity;
    16    b. any entity providing private transportation services;
    17    c. any entity providing mass-transportation city bus services; or
    18    d. any entity providing mass-transportation services  to  the  general
    19  public  that  do not require members of the public to make a reservation
    20  or purchase a ticket in advance to utilize the transportation services.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08278-01-3