File #: Int 1203-2025    Version: * Name: Requiring the chair of the commission on gender equity to develop a plan to support newly arrived migrants 24 years old and younger and transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and intersex newly arrived migrants.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Women and Gender Equity
On agenda: 2/27/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law in relation to requiring the chair of the commission on gender equity to develop a plan to support newly arrived migrants 24 years old and younger and transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and intersex newly arrived migrants
Sponsors: Chi A. Ossé, Shahana K. Hanif, Erik D. Bottcher, Crystal Hudson, Tiffany Cabán, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Summary: This bill would require the Chair of the Commission on Gender Equity to work with the Director of the Office of Immigrant Affairs and the Commissioner of Youth and Community Development to develop a plan for the City to provide support to newly arrived migrants 24 years old and younger in the city and newly arrived migrants who are transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and intersex. The plan would review the particular needs of these communities, what resources exist for them, and recommendations on how to address any gaps in city resources. The bill would require the Chair of the Commission on Gender Equity to submit the plan to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council no later than 1 year after the effective date of the local law.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1203, 2. Int. No. 1203, 3. February 27, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Committee Report 2/28/25, 5. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 6. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB

Int. No. 1203

 

By Council Members Ossé, Hanif, Bottcher, Hudson, Cabán and Louis

 

A Local Law in relation to requiring the chair of the commission on gender equity to develop a plan to support newly arrived migrants 24 years old and younger and transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and intersex newly arrived migrants

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this local law, the following terms have the following meanings:

Gender identity. The term “gender identity” means a person’s sense of their own gender, which may be the same as or different from the sex assigned at birth.

Gender nonconforming. The term “gender nonconforming” means a person whose gender expression differs from gender stereotypes, norms, and expectations in a given culture or historical period.

Intersex. The term “intersex” means a person whose sex characteristics, including, but not limited to chromosomes, hormones, gonads, and genitalia, do not conform with a binary construction of sex as either male or female. This term may not be the same as a person’s gender identity and is not the same as a person’s sexual orientation.

Nonbinary. The term “nonbinary” means a person whose gender identity is not exclusively male or female.

TGNCNBI. The term “TGNCNBI” means transgender, gender nonconforming, nonbinary, and intersex.

Transgender. The term “transgender” means a person whose gender identity does not conform to the sex assigned at birth.

b. The chair of the commission on gender equity, in consultation with the director of the office of immigrant affairs and commissioner of youth and community development, shall develop a plan to provide support to newly arrived migrants 24 years old and younger in the city and TGNCNBI newly arrived migrants. Such plan shall include a review of needs particular to newly arrived migrants 24 years old and younger in the city and TGNCNBI newly arrived migrants, including, but not limited to, needs related to housing, legal services, and healthcare; a review of existing city resources; and recommendations on how to address any gaps in resources available.

c. No later than 1 year after the effective date of this local law, the chair of the commission on gender equity shall submit the plan required by subdivision b of this local law to the mayor and the speaker of the council and post such plan on the department’s website.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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2/19/25 5:00 PM