Text of NY S 8680 (2024)

STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8680 IN SENATE February 28, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- 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 by January first, two thousand twenty-six. 10 3. A municipality that cannot comply with the requirements of this 11 section shall, at least sixty days before the applicable deadline, post 12 publicly on its website a written progress report that describes with 13 specificity the steps the municipality has taken to comply with this 14 section, the impediments that prevented compliance, and an estimated 15 time frame for compliance. Such written report shall be updated every 16 six months from the date of the original posting. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13246-06-4