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Rights Legislation Tracker

Rights Legislation Tracker organizes records from LegiScan Pull and Bulk APIs into a static table for transparent comparison. It preserves official source links and dates, marks missing enrichment, and adds deterministic grouping, change, recency, trend, or significance fields only where the documented inputs support them, without recommendations or unsupported claims.

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12/02/2024–08/28/2026
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RecordRecord DateVuga GroupChange StatusRecency DaysPublic Significance Score
Prohibits the use of electronic shelving labels, digital shelf display technology, and surveillance pricing in food retail establishments and drug retail establishments; provides injunctive relief and civil penalties.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Enacts the New York emergency responder act limiting the liability of certain emergency responders.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Increases transparency in cooperative housing corporations by giving shareholders more rights to information of the co-op and limiting the powers of management companies and boards.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Requires Medicaid to cover gender-affirming care regardless of federal funding; prohibits discriminatory practices by health care entities including hospitals, certain professionals, and insurers; requires insurance coverage for services or treatments for gender dysphoria or gender incongruence.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Authorizes the governor to deploy non-state resource providers to the northern emergency management assistance compact and the international emergency management assistance compact.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Dissolves the Clifton-Fine health care corporation and transfers any remaining records, property, rights, titles, and interest to the Clifton-Fine health care corporation d/b/a Clifton-Fine hospital, a New York not-for-profit corporation and its successors or assigns.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Authorizes Kurt Nolan to receive certain credit under sections 384-d and 384-e of the retirement and social security law for prior employment with the New York state university police.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Relates to permits and financial security for reclamation for mining on state-owned lands occurring below or beneath navigable waters; requires such permits to be subject to environmental quality review procedures; requires financial security to cover any damages directly or indirectly resulting from mining activities on state-owned lands occurring below or beneath navigable waterways, including, but not limited to, those resulting from collapse or water contamination.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Authorizes Kurt Nolan to receive certain credit under sections 384-d and 384-e of the retirement and social security law for prior employment with the New York state university police.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Provides for a license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain premises at 22 N Main Street in the village of Florida, county of Orange.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Extends the presumptive eligibility period, from twenty-five to thirty-five years, for certain retirement benefits for injuries or illnesses related to World Trade Center rescue, recovery and clean-up operations.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
California Nonprofits Day.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Extends the presumptive eligibility period, from twenty-five to thirty-five years, for certain retirement benefits for injuries or illnesses related to World Trade Center rescue, recovery and clean-up operations.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Authorizes the denial of access to certain public records which relate to civil investigations; relates to the enforcement powers of the attorney general; authorizes the attorney general to investigate and bring any civil action addressing repeated or persistent discrimination in elementary and secondary schools; requires the compromise of any claim which the state may have for care, maintenance or treatment furnished in hospitals or other such facilities to be made accordance with parameters established by the office of the attorney general; allows the commissioner of health to waive bills or compromise bills for the maintenance, care and treatment furnished to patients in medical facilities upon the prior approval of the comptroller alone.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Provides for compensation and other terms and conditions of employment of certain state officers and employees; authorizes funding of joint labor-management committees; implements agreements between the state and an employee organization; makes an appropriation therefor (Part A); provides for the salaries of certain state officers and employees excluded from collective negotiating units; makes an appropriation therefor (Part B).06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Relates to labor peace agreements and the cannabis industry wage board.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Relates to labor peace agreements and the cannabis industry wage board.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Relates to a license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain premises in the county of Schoharie.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Implements an agreement between the state and an employee organization; provides for the adjustment of salaries of certain incumbents in the professional service in the state university; makes an appropriation for the purpose of effectuating certain provisions thereof.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Implements an agreement between the state and an employee organization; provides for the adjustment of salaries of certain incumbents in the professional service in the state university; makes an appropriation for the purpose of effectuating certain provisions thereof.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Relates to the compensation, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment of certain state officers and employees; implements the agreements between the state and the public employees federation.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Relates to the right to recover attorneys' fees, costs, disbursements and expenses in actions or proceedings arising out of certain real property related instruments; expands provisions beyond mortgages.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Establishes state-facilitated investment accounts for individuals under the age of eighteen; creates a tax deduction for certain contributions to such investment accounts.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Amends the definition of "racially polarized voting" for purposes of the John R. Lewis voting rights act of New York; relates to prohibitions on voter disenfranchisement; relates to preclearance by the civil rights bureau of certain policies related to voting; provides that a plaintiff that commences an action under the John R. Lewis voting rights act of New York shall send a copy of the complaint to the civil rights bureau within ten days of the commencement of such action.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Adds libraries to the list of sensitive locations for immigration enforcement purposes.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Enacts the "fair cart act"; establishes safeguards against deceptive algorithmic pricing practices; outlines permitted pricing practices and safe harbors; requires consumer pricing transparency; provides for compliance guidance and enforcement and educational outreach.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Includes the attacks on September 11, 2001 in courses of instruction in patriotism and citizenship.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Makes certain terms gender neutral in provisions regarding the right to breast feed.06/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged86.0813.921
Increases short-term disability benefits.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Relates to the municipal sustainable energy loan program regarding qualifying water improvements, qualifying resiliency improvements and, in a city with a population of one million or more, the use of low carbon intensity building components.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Prevents certain elected officials from being a member of an agency or industrial development authority.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Provides optional disability coverage for county probation officers.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Authorizes the commissioner of the office of mental health, and the office of addiction services and support to jointly establish a single set of licensing standards and requirements for the construction, operation, reporting and surveillance of integrated behavioral health services.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Enacts "Karilyn's law"; provides that the court set the date for proceedings relating to family visitation under a guardianship petition for not more than ten days from the signing of the order to show cause; provides that visitation shall be a rebuttable presumption.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Requires the office of victim services to publicize programs offered by the office and to include certain information in annual reports to the governor and the legislature and to make such reports public on the office's website.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Provides remedies for disrupted voting times and locations during elections; directs that the BOE extend voting to account for the disruption.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Expands the geographic area of employment of state university police officers; centralizes the state university police by appointing a commissioner of state university police; provides for the hiring of state university police officers.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Relates to the municipal sustainable energy loan program regarding qualifying water improvements, qualifying resiliency improvements and, in a city with a population of one million or more, the use of low carbon intensity building components.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Requires the office of victim services to publicize programs offered by the office and to include certain information in annual reports to the governor and the legislature and to make such reports public on the office's website.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Provides remedies for disrupted voting times and locations during elections; directs that the BOE extend voting to account for the disruption.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Enacts "Karilyn's law"; provides that the court set the date for proceedings relating to family visitation under a guardianship petition for not more than ten days from the signing of the order to show cause; provides that visitation shall be a rebuttable presumption.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Prohibits utility service terminations in multiple dwellings; authorizes utility companies or municipalities to commence an action against the owner of the premises affected to seek the appointment of a receiver of rents or payments for use and occupancy or common charges.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Prohibits the use of surveillance pricing, directly or indirectly; prohibits the collection, use, retention, or sharing of data to facilitate surveillance pricing; provides exceptions; provides for enforcement by the attorney general; makes related provisions.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Provides optional disability coverage for county probation officers.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Establishes the NY digital choice act requiring social media companies to provide covered users with a copy of the covered user's social graph at the request of the covered user; defines terms; provides requirements for the interoperability of covered users' data; grants the attorney general the authority to promulgate rules and regulations and enforce such provisions.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Relates to providing information to patients and the public on hospital rule-based exclusions; requires the commissioner of health to collect from each hospital a list of its hospital rule-based exclusions and publish such information on the department's website.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Authorizes a plaintiff commencing an action alleging conduct constituting a sexual offense or a civil offense involving the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus shall have the right to proceed anonymously.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Requires the registration of data brokers; imposes regulations upon data brokers; establishes a data deletion mechanism for consumers; imposes penalties upon data brokers for violations of the law.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Directs the public service commission to develop, publish, and update a guidebook on the gas and electric ratemaking process to promote public understanding and participation in the gas and electric ratemaking process; facilitates the formal intervention and participation of interested or affected parties; sets forth requirements for what such guidebook shall include.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921
Directs the public service commission to develop, publish, and update a guidebook on the gas and electric ratemaking process to promote public understanding and participation in the gas and electric ratemaking process; facilitates the formal intervention and participation of interested or affected parties; sets forth requirements for what such guidebook shall include.06/04/2026unclassifiedunchanged87.0812.921