File #: Int 1203-2025    Version: Name: Requiring the mayor’s office of immigrant affairs to conduct an assessment to support migrants who are transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, or intersex and to develop a phased implementation plan to address gaps in supports.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
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 mayor's office of immigrant affairs to conduct an assessment to support migrants who are transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, or intersex and to develop a phased implementation plan to address gaps in supports
Sponsors: Chi A. Ossé, Shahana K. Hanif, Erik D. Bottcher, Crystal Hudson, Tiffany Cabán, Farah N. Louis, Alexa Avilés, Carlina Rivera , Gale A. Brewer, Diana I. Ayala, Christopher Marte, Amanda Farías, Shekar Krishnan, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Pierina Ana Sanchez
Council Member Sponsors: 15
Summary: This bill would require the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) to conduct an assessment of the available resources and any service gaps in the City for newly arrived migrants who are transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and intersex. The assessment would review the particular needs of these communities and what resources exist for them, and then develop an implementation plan to address service gaps based on the findings. The bill would require MOIA to submit the assessment to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council no later than 18 months after the effective date of the local law.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1203-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1203, 3. Int. No. 1203, 4. February 27, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-27-25, 6. Committee Report 2/28/25, 7. Hearing Testimony 2/28/25, 8. Hearing Transcript 2/28/25, 9. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 10. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 11. Proposed Int. No. 1203-A - 4/18/25, 12. Int. No. 1203-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 13. Int. No. 1203-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 14. Committee Report 4/24/25, 15. April 24, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1203-A

 

By Council Members Ossé, Hanif, Bottcher, Hudson, Cabán, Louis, Avilés, Rivera, Brewer, Ayala, Marte, Farías, Krishnan, Gutiérrez and Sanchez

 

A Local Law in relation to requiring the mayor’s office of immigrant affairs to conduct an assessment to support migrants who are transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, or intersex and to develop a phased implementation plan to address gaps in supports

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. a. Definitions. For 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.

Non-binary. The term “non-binary” means a person whose gender identity is not exclusively male or female.

TGNCNBI. The term “TGNCNBI” means transgender, gender nonconforming, non-binary, and intersex.

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

b. The mayor’s office of immigrant affairs, in consultation with the mayor’s office of equity and racial justice, or any successor agency or office, shall conduct an assessment of available resources and service gaps for the population of TGNCNBI migrants in New York City, including specifically those who have arrived recently and those who seek asylum. Such assessment shall include:

1. A review of existing city programs and services relevant to such population;

2. Identification of key challenges faced by such population; and

3. Opportunities for targeted intervention and service improvement.

c. In conducting the needs assessment required pursuant to subdivision b of this section, the mayor’s office of immigrant affairs may:

1. Convene interagency working groups;

2. Facilitate partnership and resource-sharing opportunities;

3. Host stakeholder and community meetings;

4. Advance public engagement and education; and

5. Share information on available resources.

d. The mayor’s office of immigrant affairs, in consultation with the mayor’s office of equity and racial justice and any other relevant agency, shall develop a phased implementation strategy to address service gaps informed by the findings of the assessment required pursuant to subdivision b of this section.

e. No later than 18 months after the effective date of this local law, the mayor’s office of immigrant affairs shall submit the assessment required pursuant to subdivision b of this section to the mayor and the speaker of the council and post such assessment on the office’s website.

 

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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