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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.

Records
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Coverage
12/02/2024–08/28/2026
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RecordRecord DateVuga GroupChange StatusRecency DaysPublic Significance Score
Requires hate crime awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Authorizes the state to convey certain forest preserve land; provides such sale shall be subject to legislative approval and the proceeds of such conveyance shall be used for acquisitions to the forest preserve.05/12/2026unclassifiedunchanged110.080
Prohibits bad faith assertions of patent infringement where the person making the assertion is not engaging, has not engaged or attempted to engage, or does not intend to engage in the bona fide use of the patent in the production, development, licensing or commercialization of goods or services.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Authorizes a veteran's close friend or family who is reasonably familiar with such veteran's wishes to request that such veteran be buried in a state veterans' cemetery.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes a forestry stewardship and habitat conservation credit for personal income and business franchise taxes.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires employers of retail, food service or cleaning employees to give such employees 7 days' notice of their work schedule and a month's notice of the minimum hours of work; provides a private right of action to employees who are aggrieved by certain violations of such provisions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to observance of all religious holidays by institutions within the state university and the city university of New York; includes the Asian Lunar New Year within the definition of such holidays.03/17/2026unclassifiedunchanged166.080
Relates to the payment of shelter and rent arrears; provides that all shelter arrears payments authorized for applicants to receive an emergency grant to pay for rent, property taxes or mortgage arrears shall be limited to once every year unless the district determines at its discretion that additional shelter arrears payments are necessary based on the individual circumstances.01/08/2025unclassifiedunchanged599.080
Authorizes cities and towns, except a city with a population of one million or more, to establish community housing funds; authorizes such cities and towns to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited in such funds; makes related provisions.01/08/2025unclassifiedunchanged599.080
Relates to requiring a medical facility or related service to obtain express prior written consent before filming and/or broadcasting of visual images of a patient's medical treatment.02/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged206.080
Enacts the "wireless broadband eligible facility permitting act" to provide for uniform regulation of certain wireless facilities.02/27/2025unclassifiedunchanged549.080
Relating to the creation of the Office of Youth Health and Safety.01/03/2025unclassifiedunchanged604.080
Relates to the practice of professional geology.02/05/2026unclassifiedunchanged206.080
Relating to the licensing and regulation of inpatient rehabilitation facilities; imposing fees; providing civil and administrative penalties; creating criminal offenses.02/03/2025unclassifiedunchanged573.080
Provides that if any employee, engaged in the service of any commuter rail service owned or operated by the authority or its subsidiaries, shall suffer a physical and/or mental injury that is caused by a passenger, customer or member of the public while the employee is performing an assigned duty, the employer shall be held liable for any health care costs attributable to such injury; makes related provisions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to assessment relief for victims of a local or major disaster in an eligible municipality.02/05/2025unclassifiedunchanged571.080
Relates to correctional facility visits by the correctional association; authorizes the correctional association to visit correctional facilities at any time and without advance notice; grants the correctional association access to certain records and information of correctional facilities.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the physician assistant licensure compact; authorizing a fee.05/23/2025unclassifiedunchanged464.080
Relates to the exercise of powers and duties of the board of elections of the city of New York and its executive management; provides for equal representation among certain employees of the board of elections; relates to qualification and removal of certain employees of the board of elections.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to the appointment and reporting duties of the superintendent of the state police and to the appointment of employees of the state police; requires the approval of certain duties of the state police by the superintendent of the state police.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Amends certain provisions relating to online dating services, including the right to cancel such services.02/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged562.080
Relates to the disclosure of automated employment decision-making tools; requires the office of information technology services to maintain an artificial intelligence inventory; provides that the use of artificial intelligence systems shall not affect the existing rights of employees pursuant to an existing collective bargaining agreement, or the existing representational relationships among employee organizations or the bargaining relationships between the employer and an employee organization.02/12/2025unclassifiedunchanged564.080
Increases the notice of cancellation requirements for automobile broker businesses.02/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged562.080
Amends certain provisions relating to online dating services, including the right to cancel such services.01/28/2025unclassifiedunchanged579.080
Provides that the contact information for the department of corrections and community supervision and the office of victim assistance shall be provided to crime victims.01/28/2025unclassifiedunchanged579.080
Clarifies certain provisions of the Alex R. Jimenez New York state military immigrant family legacy program.02/05/2025unclassifiedunchanged571.080
Removes the requirement that a state call center contractor must hire employees of a former call center contractor whose contract is terminated unless provided in the contract; makes provisions of new law applicable only to the state and its public authorities or public benefit corporations.02/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged562.080
Requires the commissioner of health to consult with the office of addiction services and supports and relevant stakeholders as determined by such commissioner in addition to the office of mental health to publish guidance for incorporating maternal depression screenings into routine prenatal care; changes the effective date to eighteen months.02/05/2025unclassifiedunchanged571.080
Amends the warehouse worker injury reduction program to focus on work related musculoskeletal disorders.02/05/2025unclassifiedunchanged571.080
Amends a chapter of 2024 regulating short-term rentals; provides local option; provides for the collection of taxes.02/28/2025unclassifiedunchanged548.080
Waives the state's sovereign immunity in state and federal courts with regard to liability for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act; waives the immunity of all instrumentalities and political subdivisions of the state.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to the termination of subsidies provided to adoptive parents for disabled or hard to place children; replaces references of "assistance" with "subsidy"; changes the effective date to 90 days.01/27/2025unclassifiedunchanged580.080
Provides for the electronic transmission of vehicle certificate of titles.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children to provide additional protections and for taking juveniles and sixteen and seventeen year olds into custody.05/18/2026unclassifiedunchanged104.080
Establishes the "recovery ready workplace act" which provides for the certification of an employer to become a recovery ready workplace; defines terms; establishes the recovery-ready workplace program; provides criteria for employers to obtain certification as a recovery ready workplace; provides for employee involvement.12/19/2025unclassifiedunchanged254.080
Relates to requiring the regents to adopt a policy that ensures all students enrolled at state university of New York and city university of New York institutions are able to express themselves freely without fear of intimidation or harm.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to the climate change adaptation cost recovery program and requirements for climate change adaptive infrastructure projects; relates to the use of funds from the climate change adaptation fund for certain projects; relates to the disclosure of certain data from returns of petroleum or fossil fuel businesses; relates to expenditure of funds from the climate change adaptation fund; repeals certain provisions; relates to severability and legislative findings.02/28/2025unclassifiedunchanged548.080
Requires sexual harassment training for hotel and motel employees; requires operators to certify to the department that they have conducted sexual harassment training; provides such training every two years for employees; requires "know your rights" brochure and employee bill of rights.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires the court to advise a defendant that if such defendant is a noncitizen resident and is convicted of a crime, whether by plea or trial, such conviction may result in such defendant's deportation; allows a withdrawal of a plea of guilty by a noncitizen resident if such noncitizen resident is threatened with deportation and such noncitizen resident is not so advised of such threat of deportation.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Increases the number of members on the state commission of correction; provides for the manner of confirmation of such members.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes a forestry stewardship and habitat conservation credit for personal income and business franchise taxes.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Imposes certain conditions on the approval of a charter school application for the conversion of an existing public school to a charter school.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the "garden protection act", protecting the rights of individuals to cultivate home vegetable gardens, native plant gardens, and/or pollinator gardens.03/17/2026unclassifiedunchanged166.080
Requires advertisements to disclose the use of a synthetic performer; imposes a $1,000 civil penalty for a first violation and a $5,000 penalty for any subsequent violation.01/12/2026unclassifiedunchanged230.080
Relates to assessment relief for victims of a local or major disaster in an eligible municipality.02/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged562.080
Entitles employees 45 years of age or older to take one day off every ten years to undergo a colonoscopy.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the statewide kinship navigator program for kinship caregivers.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires courts, prior to accepting a plea, to provide notice to the defendant that such plea and the acceptance thereof could result in deportation, removal from the United States, exclusion from the United States or denial of citizenship, if the defendant is not a citizen of the United States.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to the manner in which certain provisions of the correction law are enforced.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes a cause of action for fertility fraud; allows patients who have undergone assisted reproduction procedures to bring a cause of action if human reproductive material other than that which was consented to by the patient is used in such procedure; allows for compensatory and punitive damages.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080