Bill Text: NY S01110 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
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 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-20 - referred to governmental operations [S01110 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S01110-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1110--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 10, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- recommitted to the Committee on Finance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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-h 2 to read as follows: 3 § 170-h. 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-five to include 11 such "X" gender marker. 12 § 2. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new section 13 99-aa to read as follows: 14 § 99-aa. 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 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03261-02-4S. 1110--A 2 1 gender or sex no later than January first, two thousand twenty-five to 2 include such "X" gender marker. 3 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.