Bill Text: NY S08195 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-01 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S08195 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08195-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8195

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 1, 2022
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

        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-f
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  170-f.  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-three  to
    11  include such "X" gender marker.
    12    § 2. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new section 99-y
    13  to read as follows:
    14    §  99-y.  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-three  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.
                                                                   LBD10802-02-2