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: (Engrossed) 2024-06-03 - REFERRED TO RULES [A08241 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08241-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         8241--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee 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

        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 by January first, two thousand twenty-six.
    10    3.  A  municipality  that  cannot comply with the requirements of this
    11  section shall, at least sixty days before the applicable deadline,  post
    12  publicly  on  its  website a written progress report that describes with
    13  specificity the steps the municipality has taken  to  comply  with  this
    14  section,  the  impediments  that  prevented compliance, and an estimated
    15  time frame for compliance. Such written report shall  be  updated  every
    16  six months from the date of the original posting.
    17    § 2. 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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