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S 6909: Requires all municipalities that collect demographic information about a person's gender or sex to update all applicable forms and data systems to include a gender "x" option.
What S 6909 does, verified September 28, 2025
The bill aims to require all New York state municipalities to update their forms and data systems to include a gender "x" option. Municipalities must make this option available to individuals at the point of data collection. They must also update any physical and online forms, including websites, public-facing online services, and links, to include the gender "x" option. The updates must be made in the regular course of business, and the bill takes effect immediately.
Bill journey
1IntroducedCurrent
2In CommitteePending
3First Chamber FloorPending
4Second ChamberPending
5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: REFERRED TO CODES (2025-03-26)Alert me
Quick answers about S 6909
- What is the current status of S 6909?
- As of September 28, 2025, S 6909 is recorded as "Introduced": it has been introduced and is waiting for its first committee hearing or floor vote. The last recorded action, on March 26, 2025, was "REFERRED TO CODES".
- Did S 6909 pass?
- Not yet. S 6909 has been introduced and has not passed either house.
- Who wrote S 6909, and where is it now?
- S 6909 was authored by Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal. Its committee of record is Senate Codes.
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| Mar. 26, 2025 | REFERRED TO CODES |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, March 26, 2025 · 304 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6909 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 26, 2025 ___________ 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 in the regular course of business including, but 10 not limited to: 11 (a) updating printed forms to include the gender "x" option when such 12 forms are being reordered; 13 (b) updating websites, webpages, public facing online internet 14 services to include the gender "x" option when such websites, webpages 15 and public facing online internet services are being updated; and 16 (c) updating any links or other forms of sharing when websites, 17 webpages or other public facing online internet services are being 18 updated to reflect forms that have the gender "x" option. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00024-01-5
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