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 ·  Senate roll call No. 22  ·  date not in the feed  ·  191st General Court (2019 to 2020)
39 yeas, 1 nays, 0 absent  ·  the Clerk's sheet (PDF)

Amendment 1, moved by Senate Committee on Ways and Means  ·  Adopted, as Amended

An Act relative to gender identity on Massachusetts identification

SECTION 1. Section 13 of chapter 46 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2016 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out subsection (e) and inserting in place thereof the following subsection:- (e) A person who is over the age of 18 or who is an emancipated minor, or the parent or guardian of a person who is a minor, may request a change in the sex designation on the person’s birth record to a sex designation including, but not limited to, “female”, “male” or “X.” An “X” designation may indicate that the person is non-binary, intersex, undesignated or of another gender. A request for a change in the sex designation on a birth record shall be accompanied by an affidavit execut…

yea · 39

nay · 1

An asterisk marks a vote the sheet records as entered after the roll closed. A member shown as "not linked" is a name on the sheet that did not resolve to exactly one member of the session's roster; it is left as printed rather than guessed.