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A01142 Summary:

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A01142 Committee Votes:

Committee:GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS   Chair:McDonald      
DATE:02/28/2023AYE/NAY:10/3  Action: Favorable         
McDonald
Aye
Durso
Aye
Glick
Aye
Goodell
Nay
Kim
Aye
Beephan
Nay
Bichotte Hermel
Absent
Slater
Aye
Hyndman
Nay
Williams
Aye
Wallace
Aye
Meeks
Aye
Raga
Aye
Simone
Aye

A01142 Floor Votes:

A01142 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1142
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations
 
        AN  ACT  to amend the general construction law, in relation to requiring
          the use of gender-neutral terms in law
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  22  of the general construction law, as added by
     2  chapter 730 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 22. Gender. Whenever words  of  the  masculine  or  feminine  gender
     4  appear  in any law, rule or regulation, unless the sense of the sentence
     5  indicates otherwise, they shall be deemed to  refer  to  [both  male  or
     6  female]  persons  of any gender. This construction shall apply to gender
     7  indicative suffixes or prefixes as well as to gender  indicative  words.
     8  Whenever  the  reference is to a corporation, board, body, group, organ-
     9  ization or other entity comprising more than one person or to an  assem-
    10  blage  of  persons  or  to  an  inanimate  object the reference shall be
    11  construed to be neuter in gender.  Hereafter, in any  law,  rule,  regu-
    12  lation,  ordinance  or  resolution, gendered terms shall not be used and
    13  gender-neutral terms, including but not limited to  "they",  "them"  and
    14  "theirs", shall be used in substitution therefor and with the same force
    15  and  effect; provided, however, if such law, rule, regulation, ordinance
    16  or resolution is in reference to a specific person, the language  refer-
    17  ring  to  such  person  shall  be gendered in accordance with the gender
    18  identity of such person.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01090-01-3