Addressed to New York Governor Kathy Hochul, New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and New York Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie.
The undersigned organizations are civil rights organizations, Black, Brown, and Asian empowerment groups, LGBTQ+ equity groups, harm reduction groups, immigrant rights organizations, and others who work to elevate those living with HIV and AIDS and/or other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). We urge the legislature to include in their budgets HMH Part T §9 in the state budget repealing Section 2307 of the Public Health Law. Moreover, we urge the legislature to fully align with public health and health equity policies by including the entirety of A3347/S4603, the REPEAL STI Discrimination Act (hereinafter REPEAL Act) introduced by Assemblymember Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas and Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, in their one-house budgets.