Requires all municipalities that collect demographic information about a person's gender or sex to update all applicable forms and data systems to include a gender "x" option.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9996
IN SENATE
April 21, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. BOTTCHER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to requiring all muni-
cipalities to update all applicable forms and data systems to include
a gender "x" option
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The civil rights law is amended by adding a new section
2 79-r to read as follows:
3 § 79-r. Collection of gender or sex designation information by munici-
4 palities. 1. All New York state municipalities that collect demographic
5 information about a person's gender or sex shall make available to the
6 person at the point of data collection an option to mark their gender or
7 sex as "x".
8 2. All municipalities shall update any applicable physical and online
9 forms or data systems in the regular course of business including, but
10 not limited to:
11 (a) updating printed forms to include the gender "x" option when such
12 forms are being reordered;
13 (b) updating websites, webpages, public facing online internet
14 services to include the gender "x" option when such websites, webpages
15 and public facing online internet services are being updated; and
16 (c) updating any links or other forms of sharing when websites,
17 webpages or other public facing online internet services are being
18 updated to reflect forms that have the gender "x" option.
19 § 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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