Resolve, Directing the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, the State Court Administrator and the Executive Director of the Legislative Council to Add a 3rd Option for Gender on State Forms
Maine Legislature, Session 131, LD 2235
Committee: Judiciary

Legislative Document
No. 2235
H.P. 1434
House of Representatives, February 28, 2024
Resolve, Directing the Department of Administrative and Financial 
Services, the State Court Administrator and the Executive Director 
of the Legislative Council to Add a 3rd Option for Gender on State 
Forms
Reported by Representative MOONEN of Portland for the Joint Standing Committee on 
Judiciary pursuant to Resolve 2023, chapter 76, section 2.
Reference to the Committee on Judiciary suggested and ordered printed pursuant to Joint 
Rule 218.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Sec. 1.  Department of Administrative and Financial Services, State Court 
Administrator and Executive Director of Legislative Council to amend printed 
forms. Resolved:  That, within existing resources, the Department of Administrative and 
Financial Services, in coordination with all executive branch departments, agencies, 
offices, boards and commissions and all quasi-independent agencies, boards, commissions, 
authorities and institutions in the State, and the State Court Administrator and the Executive 
Director of the Legislative Council shall, by December 31, 2024, add an option to designate 
“X” for gender on all printed forms, applications and other documents used by these entities 
that require a person to designate that person’s gender. When reviewing the printed forms, 
the departments, the State Court Administrator and the Executive Director of the 
Legislative Council shall determine whether the designation of a person’s gender is 
necessary for the purposes of each form, and, if it is not, the departments, the State Court 
Administrator and the Executive Director of the Legislative Council shall remove the 
question from the form.
Sec. 2.  Department of Administrative and Financial Services, State Court 
Administrator and Executive Director of Legislative Council to amend digital 
forms. Resolved:  That, within existing resources, the Department of Administrative and 
Financial Services, in coordination with all executive branch departments, agencies, 
offices, boards and commissions and all quasi-independent agencies, boards, commissions, 
authorities and institutions in the State, and the State Court Administrator and the Executive 
Director of the Legislative Council shall add an option to designate “X” for gender on all 
digital forms, applications and other documents used by these entities that require a person 
to designate that person’s gender. When reviewing the digital forms, the departments, the 
State Court Administrator and the Executive Director of the Legislative Council shall 
determine whether the designation of a person’s gender is necessary for the purposes of 
each form, and, if it is not, the departments, the State Court Administrator and the Executive 
Director of the Legislative Council shall remove the question from the form. The 
departments, the State Court Administrator and the Executive Director of the Legislative 
Council shall make these updates in the regular course of updating their forms.
SUMMARY
This resolve directs the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, the State 
Court Administrator and the Executive Director of the Legislative Council to update by 
December 31, 2024 all printed forms, applications and other documents that require the 
designation of a person's gender to add an option to designate “X” for gender.  The resolve 
also directs the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, the State Court 
Administrator and the Executive Director of the Legislative Council to update all digital 
forms, applications and other documents that require the designation of a person's gender 
to add an option to designate “X” for gender in the regular course of updating their forms. 
Finally, the resolve directs the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, the 
State Court Administrator and the Executive Director of the Legislative Council, in the 
course of updating all forms, to determine whether the designation of a person’s gender is 
necessary for the purposes of each form, and, if it is not, to remove the question from the 
form.