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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