Assembly Bill A8547

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Makes technical corrections to a provision requiring the use of gender-neutral terms in law

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Current Bill Status Via S8074 - Signed by Governor

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A8547 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8074
Law Section:
General Construction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §22, Gen Con L (as proposed in S.155 & A.1142)

2023-A8547 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes technical corrections to a provision requiring the use of gender-neutral terms in law.

2023-A8547 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8547
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 8, 2024
                                ___________
 
 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:

   Section 1. Section 22 of the general construction law, as amended by a
 chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the general construction law relat-
 ing  to requiring the use of gender-neutral terms in law, as proposed in
 legislative bills numbers S. 155 and A. 1142,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   §  22.  Gender.  Whenever  words  of  the masculine or feminine gender
 appear in any law, rule [or], regulation, OR RESOLUTION unless the sense
 of the sentence indicates otherwise, they shall be deemed  to  refer  to
 persons  of  any  gender. This construction shall apply to gender indic-
 ative suffixes or prefixes as well as to gender indicative words.  When-
 ever the reference is to a corporation, board, body, group, organization
 or  other  entity comprising more than one person or to an assemblage of
 persons or to an inanimate object the reference shall be construed to be
 [neuter] NEUTRAL in gender.  Hereafter, in any  law,  rule,  regulation,
 [ordinance]  or resolution, gendered terms shall not be used and gender-
 neutral terms, including but not limited to "they", "them" and "theirs",
 shall be used in substitution therefor  and  with  the  same  force  and
 effect;  provided,  however,  if  ANY such law, rule, regulation, [ordi-
 nance] or resolution is in reference to a specific person, the  language
 referring to such person shall be gendered in accordance with the gender
 identity of such person.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner  as  a  chapter  of  the  laws  of  2023  amending  the   general
 construction  law  relating to requiring the use of gender-neutral terms
 in law, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.  155  and  A.  1142,
 takes effect.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01090-02-4

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