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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
Establishes the right to legal counsel in immigration court proceedings; provides for the administration thereof.01/08/2025unclassifiedunchanged599.080
Provides a civil action for deprivation of rights which is caused by any person or public entity.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the "New York religious freedom act".01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to the right of tenant association to have the first option to purchase a housing unit.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Permits records required to be disclosed under the freedom of information law to have exempt parts of such documents be redacted before disclosure.06/11/2025unclassifiedunchanged445.080
Provides for free legal representation in certain mortgage foreclosure actions where the homeowner is financially unable to obtain counsel; requires notice of such availability.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to claim settlement practices when an insurer refuses to pay or is delaying payment of a settlement; provides a policyholder a private right of action against such insurer doing business in the state who has refused or delayed payment of an insurance claim.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the "Consumer and Small business Protection Act"; relates to standing for persons affected by prohibited or unlawful business practices; expands prohibited acts to include unfair, deceptive or abusive acts.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires high schools in grades nine through twelve to provide a course in financial literacy; requires students to complete such course as a condition of graduation.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the "commuter rail employee rights protection act".01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the student journalist education act to protect student speech at educational institutions unless such speech is libelous, an invasion of privacy, or incites students to commit an unlawful act, violate school policies, or to materially and substantially disrupt the orderly operation of the school.04/02/2026unclassifiedunchanged150.080
Enacts "Lorraine's Law"; increases from twenty-four to sixty months, the time for which reconsideration for parole for a violent felony offense shall be determined.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides that no provision of section eighty of the civil service law shall modify, replace or supersede any provision of a collective bargaining agreement that provides for greater rights than required by such section.06/11/2025unclassifiedunchanged445.080
Requires all municipalities that collect demographic information about a person's gender or sex to update all applicable forms and data systems to include a gender "x" option.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to victims of sex offenses, sex-based human trafficking offenses, or acts of a sexual nature, to the confidentiality of or restrictions on the availability of certain property, material, or information regarding those victims, offenses, or acts, and to the duties of peace officers regarding interactions with those victims.04/28/2025unclassifiedunchanged489.080
Relating to the management, operation, and contract authority of open-enrollment charter schools.03/12/2025unclassifiedunchanged536.080
Expressing support for designating January 19 as Confederate Freedom Day.03/05/2025unclassifiedunchanged543.080
Relating to the relocation, adjustment, and ownership of commercial signs.04/30/2025unclassifiedunchanged487.080
Relating to the transfer of students between public schools.04/22/2025unclassifiedunchanged495.080
Health care: legally protected health care activity.10/13/2025unclassifiedunchanged321.080
The California Elder Financial Abuse Prevention Act.02/02/2026unclassifiedunchanged209.080
School accountability: Office of the Education Inspector General: school financial and performance audits: charter school authorization, oversight, funding, operations, networks, and contracting: data systems: local educational agency contractor background checks and contracting.09/12/2025unclassifiedunchanged352.080
Korean American Day.02/04/2025unclassifiedunchanged572.080
Establishes a bicycle and electric scooter operator's safety manual; provides for the issuance of a license for residents who successfully read and comprehend the operator's safety manual; requires residents who operate an electric scooter in New York City to have a license to operate such devices; requires instruction in electric scooter safety as part of the drivers pre-licensing course; requires liability insurance for electric scooters in cities having a population of one million or more; prohibits the sale of an electric scooter to a purchaser unless the purchaser has a license to operate the electric scooter and has insurance in a city having a population of one million or more.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires counties and/or cities to establish a plan for providing legal counsel to persons who are defendants or respondents in eviction, ejectment and foreclosure proceedings and who are financially unable to obtain counsel; defines eligible person as one whose gross individual income is not in excess of one hundred twenty-five percent of the federal income official poverty line; requires the state to match dollar for dollar the amount counties appropriate for their plans.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits mandatory arbitration agreements in consumer and employment contracts; repeals existing provisions prohibiting mandatory arbitration clauses in certain consumer contracts.05/19/2026unclassifiedunchanged103.080
Requires the development and implementation of written workplace sexual harassment, sexual assault, and discrimination policies by corporations; requires reporting and eligibility for tax credits based on a corporation's record of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and discrimination among and between employees of such corporation; requires the division of human rights to promulgate standards relating to eligibility for state tax credits.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Creates a task force on animal laws; requires reporting to the governor and legislature of recommendations on how to increase statewide uniformity of such.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to the hospitalization, care coordination, and assisted outpatient treatment for persons with mental illness by qualified clinical examiners or qualified mental health professionals; defines qualified clinical examiner and qualified mental health professional.02/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged556.080
Requires hospitals to establish a violence prevention program which includes a workplace safety and security assessment and develop a safety and security plan that addresses identified workplace violence threats or hazards.12/12/2025unclassifiedunchanged261.080
Enacts the New York religious land use and religious exercise act prohibiting unreasonable restriction on regulations affecting religious land use or affecting religious exercise of institutionalized persons.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to limitations on the use of smart access systems; restricts information that may be gathered on lessees, tenants, owners or guests.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Exempts small business enterprises that manufacture metal or vinyl windows and doors from certain employee limits and personal net worth limits for purposes of certification of a minority-owned business enterprise.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to school climate and codes of conduct on school property and disciplinary action following violation of such codes of conduct; makes conforming amendments.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides an exemption from requirements for the alienation of parkland for renewable energy generating projects with a generating capacity not exceeding two megawatts and which are located above real property currently used for vehicle parking.02/03/2026unclassifiedunchanged208.080
Expressing support for designating January 19 as Confederate Freedom Day.03/05/2025unclassifiedunchanged543.080
Creates climate liability for fossil fuel related activity which caused or contributed to climate change; creates a right of action.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to increasing short-term disability benefits.01/16/2026unclassifiedunchanged226.080
Enacts into law components of legislation that relate to live event ticket sales; institutes civil penalties for utilizing ticket purchasing software; institutes new penalties for second offenses for licensees and for any person, firm, corporation or entity who is made aware of the utilization of ticket purchasing software and does not notify the attorney general of such utilization (Part A); establishes an annual professional reseller renewal fee; requires professional ticket resellers to provide their New York state ticket reseller license number as a condition of utilizing an online resale marketplace to resell tickets (Part B); provides criteria for when a purchaser may obtain a full refund of the amount paid for a ticket; permits a refund when a purchaser cannot attend an event due to a medical necessity (Part C); relates to resale requirements for tickets; requires that if a licensee or other ticket reseller doesn't have possession of the ticket, then they shall have a written contract to obtain the offered ticket at a certain price from a person or entity in possession of the ticket or from a person or entity who has a contractual right to obtain such ticket, and tickets to the event have been placed on sale by the venue or entity hosting the event or its authorized agent before the licensee or reseller can advertise the sale of the tickets (Part D); relates to unlawful charges in connection with tickets; permits reasonable charges for costs actually rendered or otherwise in connection to customer support, technological and software infrastructure, and actual operational costs for sales away from the box office; defines terms (Part E); relates to the availability of tickets for sale to the general public; defines a term (Part F); reduces the minimum seating capacity requirement for a professional sports organization membership pass to over thirteen thousand five hundred seats in a venue or stadium (Part G); prohibits exclusivity clauses in contracts between operators of places of entertainment and primary ticket vendors (Part H); relates to the resale of tickets included in a subscription or season ticket package (Part I).01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires the department of veterans' services to provide information on the department's website on volunteer opportunities available to veterans and to post relevant application forms that a qualified veteran can use to apply for volunteer opportunities.06/12/2025unclassifiedunchanged444.080
Establishes the child and family well-being program and fund for the distribution of grants to eligible nonprofit community-based providers to respond to children's and families' needs in communities.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to hospitalization, care coordination, and assisted outpatient treatment for persons with mental illness.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides that a policy of this state should be to increase housing options and opportunities, including but not limited to affordable, workforce and senior housing.05/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged117.080
Relates to the discovery provisions applicable to juvenile delinquency proceedings in family court with regard to the timing of discovery, disclosure prior to certain guilty pleas, DNA evidence, court orders, and the admissibility of discovery.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to securing payment of wages for work already performed; creates a lien remedy for all employees; provides grounds for attachment; relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage theft; relates to rights for victims of wage theft to hold the ten members with the largest ownership interests in a company personally liable for wage theft.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Authorizes the town of Chester to establish community preservation funds; establishes a real estate transfer tax with revenues therefrom to be deposited in said community preservation fund.10/16/2025unclassifiedunchanged318.080
Relates to the medical aid in dying act; relates to a terminally ill patient's request for and use of medication for medical aid in dying.02/06/2026unclassifiedunchanged205.080
Establishes the office of urban agriculture.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides final discipline authority over civilian complaints to the civilian complaint review board; creates a hearing officer and adjudicative body for such complaint review board.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides that possession of a condom or other reproductive or sexual health device may not be received in evidence in any trial, hearing or proceeding as evidence of conduct which would constitute an offense defined in article 230 of the penal law.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080