Bill Text: NY S03225 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the collection of certain demographic information about the sexual orientation and gender identity or expression of residents by certain state agencies, boards and commissions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-01 - SUBSTITUTED BY A358 [S03225 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03225-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3225

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 30, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  HOYLMAN-SIGAL,  HINCHEY, THOMAS -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Finance

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive  law,  in  relation  to requiring the
          collection of certain demographic information by certain  state  agen-
          cies, boards and commissions

          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-g
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 170-g. Collection of demographic information; sexual orientation and
     4  gender expression.  1. Every state agency,  board,  or  commission  that
     5  directly  or by contract collects demographic data as to the ancestry or
     6  ethnic origin of residents of the state of New York shall  use  separate
     7  collection  categories and tabulations for sexual orientation and gender
     8  identity or expression.
     9    2. The term "gender identity or  expression"  means  having  or  being
    10  perceived  as having a gender identity, self-image, appearance, behavior
    11  or expression whether or not that gender identity,  self-image,  appear-
    12  ance,  behavior or expression is different from that traditionally asso-
    13  ciated with the sex assigned to that person at birth.
    14    3. The data collected pursuant to the different collection  categories
    15  and  tabulations  described  in subdivision one of this section shall be
    16  included in every demographic report on ancestry or  ethnic  origins  of
    17  residents  of  the  state  of  New  York  by the state agency, board, or
    18  commission published or released on or after July first, in the calendar
    19  year following the effective date of this section.  The  data  shall  be
    20  made  available  to the public in accordance with state and federal law,
    21  except for personal  identifying  information,  which  shall  be  deemed
    22  confidential, by posting the data on the internet web site of the agency
    23  on  or  before  July first, in the calendar year following the effective

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01613-01-3
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     1  date of this section, and annually thereafter.  This  subdivision  shall
     2  not  be  construed  to  prevent any other state agency from posting data
     3  collected pursuant to subdivision one of this section  on  the  agency's
     4  internet web site, in the manner prescribed by this section.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     6  it shall have become a law.