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In May 2019, the Hawaii State Legislature passed a bill to add "X" as a sex option on both driver's licenses and birth certificates. [additional citation(s) needed] The bill passed the House by a voice vote and the Senate by a vote of 24–1. On June 26, 2019, Governor David Ige signed the bill into law, and it went into effect on July 1, 2020 ...
As of January 2023, [230] New York State birth certificates may be corrected to show an "X" gender designation. Parents may do this on behalf of a child under 16. The only documentation needed is a notarized affidavit. [231] In June 2017, legislation was introduced in New York City to offer an "X" gender marker for residents' ID cards. [200]
New York was the second state, after Hawaii, to enact landmark abortion law legislation. [17] Unlike Hawaii, however, New York's abortion law did not have a 90-day residency requirement. Between 1970 and 1973, the New York General Assembly attempted to repeal their law that made abortion legal.
Jan. 1—New laws taking effect today include an increase in the state minimum wage to $14 an hour, gender-neutral language for birth and marriage certificates, and a requirement that Hawaii law ...
Stop and identify statutes. "Stop and identify" statutes are laws in several U.S. states that authorize police [ 1] to lawfully order people whom they reasonably suspect of committing a crime to state their name. If there is not reasonable suspicion that a person has committed a crime, is committing a crime, or is about to commit a crime, the ...
Abortion in Hawaii is legal. 66% of adults in Hawaii said in a poll by the Pew Research Center that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. [ 1] Hawaii began allowing elective abortion care de jure in 1970, the first state to do so. State law enacted at that time stated said, "the State shall not deny or interfere with a female's right ...
In 2023, this was changed and the state health department announced it would no longer issue new birth certificates with amended gender markers due to recently passed state law. [ 47 ] Virginia removed the requirement for surgery to change the gender marker in September 2020.
The Reproductive Health Act is a New York statute enacted on January 22, 2019, that protects abortion rights, decriminalized abortion, and eliminated several restrictions on voluntary abortions in the state. [ 1] The RHA repealed §4164 of the state Public Health Law. [ 2] The law has received national media attention.