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legislation/us/states/ny/2019-2020/s-6573.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relates to affirmative defenses for certain homicide offenses"
+description: "Provides that it shall not be an affirmative defense for murder that the defendant's conduct resulted substantially from the discovery, knowledge or disclosure of the victim's sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression or sex assigned at birth."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2019-2020"
+identifier: "S 6573"
+citation: "New York S 6573 (2019-2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["HOYLMAN"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-06-16"
+last_action: "2019-06-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0b5a5ce-f2f2-46d4-9c89-b6c19f1ebf1e"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S6573"
+source_hash: "dc6f3016d216c5bd460e09e53542318b002ae78a3243d1597ce311718adcc86f"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York S 6573 (2019-2020) — Relates to affirmative defenses for certain homicide offenses
+
+Provides that it shall not be an affirmative defense for murder that the defendant's conduct resulted substantially from the discovery, knowledge or disclosure of the victim's sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression or sex assigned at birth.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S6573** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S6573&term=2019&Text=Y)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Floor Vote — **62–0** (pass) · upper
+- Rules Vote — **19–0** (pass) · upper
+- Assembly Vote — **143–5** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- HOYLMAN — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-16** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-18** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1659
+- **2019-06-19** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2019-06-19** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2019-06-19** REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-19** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8375
+- **2019-06-19** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.537
+- **2019-06-19** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2019-06-19** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2019-06-28** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-30** SIGNED CHAP.45 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0b5a5ce-f2f2-46d4-9c89-b6c19f1ebf1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+