Requires any entity doing business in this state and engaged in the business of mass-transportation of the general public on an airplane, railroad train, bus or cruise ship to update its reservation, ticketing and check-in website applications to include an additional gender marker option to allow travelers to select their gender based on self-attestation, regardless of the sex assigned at birth; provides exceptions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6974
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 16, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring
certain mass transit providers to provide an additional gender option
on systems used for reservations, ticketing and check-in in order to
accurately reflect a traveler's gender
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
2 128 to read as follows:
3 § 128. Ticketing gender options. 1. Notwithstanding any law, rule or
4 regulation to the contrary, no later than January first, two thousand
5 twenty-four, any entity doing business in this state and engaged in the
6 business of mass-transportation of the general public on an airplane,
7 railroad train, bus or cruise ship shall update its reservation, ticket-
8 ing and check-in website applications to include an additional gender
9 marker option to allow transgender, gender non-binary and gender non-
10 conforming travelers to select their gender based on self-attestation,
11 regardless of the sex assigned at birth. The additional gender option
12 may be specified as "Unspecified", "Undisclosed" or "X", or any combina-
13 tion thereof.
14 2. The provisions of this section shall not apply to:
15 a. any governmental entity;
16 b. any entity providing private transportation services;
17 c. any entity providing mass-transportation city bus services; or
18 d. any entity providing mass-transportation services to the general
19 public that do not require members of the public to make a reservation
20 or purchase a ticket in advance to utilize the transportation services.
21 § 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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