Bill Text: NY A07460 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 7460 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A07460 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07460-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7460

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- 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-e
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  170-e.  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-two to  include
    11  such "X" gender marker.
    12    § 2. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new section 99-x
    13  to read as follows:
    14    §  99-x.  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-two  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.
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