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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
Offers parental controls for internet services; allows the attorney general to bring a civil action against any internet provider that violates certain requirements.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the position of chief artificial intelligence officer and such person's functions, powers and duties; including, but not limited to, developing statewide artificial intelligence policies and governance, coordinating the activities of any and all state departments, boards, commissions, agencies and authorities performing any functions using artificial intelligence tools; makes related provisions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides that certain allegations made by employees involving employment discrimination shall be protected and matters of public interest in actions involving public petition and participation.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim October 1, 2025, as International Day of Older Persons in the State of New York01/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged593.080
Relates to certain prostitution offenses and fines relating thereto; relates to motions to vacate judgment and motions for new sentencing; relates to investigation into acts alleged to be the unauthorized practice of massage therapy by potential victims of human trafficking; prohibits the possession of reproductive or sexual health devices from being permitted in specified criminal or civil proceedings as evidence of prostitution; relates to services for exploited individuals, services for victims of human trafficking and the interagency task force on human trafficking; establishes the victims of sexual exploitation fund; makes conforming changes; repeals provisions relating to prostitution, prostitution in a school zone, defense against patronizing a person for prostitution and a motion to dismiss information, simplified information, prosecutor's information or misdemeanor complaint.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Restores the legislative checks and balances to any emergency declaration that exceeds forty-five days; ensures judicial due process rights for any action that impairs fundamental constitutional rights by limiting the powers of the governor to suspend laws during a state disaster emergency; requires a specification and explanation of which municipalities are affected by such suspension of laws.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim December 3, 2025, as International Day of Persons with Disabilities in the State of New York01/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged593.080
Requires the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to establish design standards for greenway trails and to manage applications for greenway trails.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Promotes efficient and effective oversight of continuing care retirement communities; transfers certain powers and duties from the continuing care retirement community council to the commissioner of health; repeals certain provisions of law relating thereto.06/11/2025unclassifiedunchanged445.080
Includes information about bystander intervention training in the department of labor's model sexual harassment prevention policy that includes information and practical guidance on how to enable bystanders to recognize potentially problematic behaviors and to motivate bystanders to take action when such bystanders observe problematic behaviors.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 28, 2025, as World Hunger Day in the State of New York01/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged593.080
Prohibits the enforcement of mandatory arbitration agreements clauses and joint-action waivers with respect to workplace disputes; clarifies that section 7515 of the civil practice laws and rules applies retroactively to nullify pre-existing illegal mandatory arbitration clauses.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and duties of the board of trustees, the scope of benefits, payment methodologies and care coordination; establishes the New York Health Trust Fund which would hold monies from a variety of sources to be used solely to finance the plan; enacts provisions relating to financing of New York Health, including a payroll assessment, similar to the Medicare tax; establishes a temporary commission on implementation of the plan; provides for collective negotiations by health care providers with New York Health.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides for budget planning and debt settlement services; requires debt settlement companies to obtain a license.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim August 26, 2025, as Women's Equality Day in the State of New York01/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged593.080
Requires the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to acquire the mineral interests under all land acquired or received by the state for the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation, unless the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation finds that the land is of great significance and importance to the state.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the "education equity act" which provides language assistance to parents or guardians who have children enrolled in public school and whose primary language is not English; defines terms; creates an annual language assistance plan to assess language needs in the district; requires the department of education to establish web pages detailing the rights of parents to translation services in each covered language; requires annual reports by each school district to the local board of education.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact; authorizing fees.05/23/2025unclassifiedunchanged464.080
Establishes a process for regulating the collecting, recording, and disclosing of confidential information by state employees.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits the use of consumer credit history in hiring, employment and licensing determinations.05/12/2025unclassifiedunchanged475.080
Allows employers to request or require a prospective or current employee to execute a restrictive covenant not to engage in specified acts in competition with the employer after termination of the employment relationship as a condition of employment, continued employment, or with respect to severance pay.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts "Cariol's Law"; provides for a duty to intervene when a police officer or peace officer observes another police officer or peace officer using physical force that such officer reasonably believes to be clearly excessive or beyond that which is objectively reasonable under the circumstances.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to codifying animal cruelty laws under the penal law; makes conforming technical changes.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits employers from asking job applicants about salary expectations; allows job applicants to request the included benefits for the position they are applying for.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Directs the department of financial services to periodically inspect residential real properties for which a lender has a duty to maintain; authorizes the department of financial services or the municipality to impose a $500 a day civil penalty for the failure of a lender to maintain an abandoned property that it has a duty to maintain; requires such lenders to register with the statewide vacant and abandoned property electronic registry.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the "criminal forfeiture process act" to replace the process for the criminal forfeiture of certain property in certain instances.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits a cause of action for defamation where the subject of such action includes an allegation made to an employer regarding an unlawful discriminatory practice or act of retaliation.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits the disclosure of highway, bridge, tunnel and other thoroughfare toll and transit records, with exceptions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Creates privacy standards for electronic health products and services; requires consent to be given for the collection and/or sharing of personal health information or other personal data.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides a civil action for deprivation of rights which is caused by any person or public entity.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.01/28/2025unclassifiedunchanged579.080
California FAIR Plan Association.10/09/2025unclassifiedunchanged325.080
Fernando Valenzuela Day.09/23/2025unclassifiedunchanged341.080
San Francisco Bay area: local revenue measure: public transit funding.10/13/2025unclassifiedunchanged321.080
National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.02/13/2025unclassifiedunchanged563.080
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 4-10, 2025, as Correctional Officers and Employees Week in the State of New York01/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged593.080
Requires that photographs of all parking violations be taken and maintained; requires that such photographs be furnished to the person charged in a reasonable time upon request.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to creating the Neighborhood Small Business Rent Increase Exemption; provides a tax abatement for limiting rent increases on small businesses in a city of one million or more persons.05/14/2026unclassifiedunchanged108.080
Enacts the interstate medical licensure compact; provides a streamlined process that allows physicians to become licensed in multiple participating states, thereby enhancing the portability of a medical license and ensuring the safety of patients.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to a parental right to information concerning a public school special education program and certain requirements for persons serving as special education representatives and hearing officers at impartial due process hearings; authorizing a fee.05/08/2025unclassifiedunchanged479.080
Removes the requirement that rent arrears be repaid for social services districts located in a municipality with a population of five million or more.02/10/2026unclassifiedunchanged201.080
Relating to informed consent requirements before the provision of health care services.03/19/2025unclassifiedunchanged529.080
Requires the disclosure of lead-based paint test reports in real estate transactions.03/11/2026unclassifiedunchanged172.080
Prohibits contracts for the purchase or financing of a dog or cat from online websites from including provisions allowing repossession of the animal.11/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged282.080
Enacts a bill of rights for owners of residential condominium units to provide fair and equitable treatment of all unit owners; directs the attorney general to promulgate a handbook summary of the rights of unit owners vis-a-vis condominium associations and the procedures and processes available to unit owners to enforce such rights.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to safe staffing for public employees of institutional settings by setting maximum overtime levels.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Permits the admissibility of testimony that a person reported acts of discrimination to another person in a civil trial under the human rights law, including the contents of such report.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires insurers to provide certificate holders with at least thirty days prior written notice of termination of group health insurance coverage.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits health care practitioners from performing a virginity examination or supervising the performance of a virginity examination on a patient; defines "virginity examination".01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires landlords to replace a lock on a tenant's dwelling door within 24 hours of a request by a tenant who is a victim of domestic violence; provides civil penalties for violations in relation thereto.05/12/2026unclassifiedunchanged110.080