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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 15, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, WEBB -- 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-i
2 to read as follows:
3 § 170-i. 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-six 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
21 gender or sex no later than January first, two thousand twenty-six 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.
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