Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Jun 25, 2023 |
approval memo.3 signed chap.139 |
Jun 23, 2023 |
delivered to governor |
May 22, 2023 |
returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.131 substituted for s155 |
May 17, 2023 |
referred to judiciary delivered to senate passed assembly |
Mar 02, 2023 |
advanced to third reading cal.22 |
Feb 28, 2023 |
reported |
Jan 13, 2023 |
referred to governmental operations |
Assembly Bill A1142
Signed By Governor2023-2024 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
KELLES
Current Bill Status - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
Steven Raga
Juan Ardila
Steven Otis
Alex Bores
2023-A1142 (ACTIVE) - Details
2023-A1142 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1142 2023-2024 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y 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: Section 1. Section 22 of the general construction law, as added by chapter 730 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows: § 22. Gender. Whenever words of the masculine or feminine gender appear in any law, rule or regulation, unless the sense of the sentence indicates otherwise, they shall be deemed to refer to [both male or female] persons OF ANY GENDER. This construction shall apply to gender indicative suffixes or prefixes as well as to gender indicative words. Whenever the reference is to a corporation, board, body, group, organ- ization or other entity comprising more than one person or to an assem- blage of persons or to an inanimate object the reference shall be construed to be neuter in gender. HEREAFTER, IN ANY LAW, RULE, REGU- LATION, 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 SUCH LAW, RULE, REGULATION, ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION IS IN REFERENCE TO A SPECIFIC PERSON, THE LANGUAGE REFER- RING TO SUCH PERSON SHALL BE GENDERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE GENDER IDENTITY OF SUCH PERSON. § 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
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