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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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Coverage
12/02/2024–08/28/2026
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RecordRecord DateVuga GroupChange StatusRecency DaysPublic Significance Score
Establishes the New York long term care trust program to provide long term care benefits for eligible residents who have paid the required premium contributions and are in need of assistance with at least two activities of daily living as determined by the department of health.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to audio-visual coverage of judicial proceedings by the media; allows the judge or justice presiding over a proceeding to exercise discretion to prohibit or limit filming or photographing of particular participants; defines terms; provides limitations on audio-visual coverage.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the "tenants organizing act"; allows tenants' groups, committees or other tenants' organizations to invite outside guests or visitors including elected officials, services providers, housing lawyers, etc. without being required to pay fees; defines "tenants' organization"; provides for activities that tenants' organizations can take part in; provides for the manner in how a tenants' organization is established.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to credits for charges in which services were not supplied; requires the city of New York to make certain that there are no charges being levied for services which were not supplied to a covered entity; requires accounts to be credited for services not provided.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes a pilot project for placement of incarcerated individuals close to home; provides that such project would house incarcerated individuals who are parents of minor children in the correctional facility located in closest proximity to the primary place of residence of any such incarcerated individual's minor child or children.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the "tenants organizing act"; allows tenants' groups, committees or other tenants' organizations to invite outside guests or visitors including elected officials, services providers, housing lawyers, etc. without being required to pay fees; defines "tenants' organization"; provides for activities that tenants' organizations can take part in; provides for the manner in how a tenants' organization is established.05/19/2026unclassifiedunchanged103.080
Provides a private right of action for nail specialists aggrieved by their employer in the case of a health and safety violation, unlawful retaliatory action, or general labor issues such as hours and breaks.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the model overdose mapping and response act.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides optional disability coverage for county probation officers.01/08/2026unclassifiedunchanged234.080
Relates to succession rights for rent stabilized housing; reduces the succession residency requirement from two years to one.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes a sea level rise mitigation and adaptation plan for cities with a population of one million or more to be implemented by the department of environmental conservation; requires a sea level rise vulnerability and adaptation report to be submitted.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Removes the requirement that rent arrears be repaid for social services districts located in a municipality with a population of five million or more.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Creates the fourteenth judicial district consisting of the county of Erie and a supreme court library at Erie.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Restricts the formation of new development agencies in Erie County; limits the authority of town industrial development agencies located within Erie County to exempt certain taxes.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Authorizes the commissioner of the New York city department of finance to create an air rights database recording transfers of such unused development rights.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the New York civil rights cold case records collection act; directs the state archivist to create a civil rights cold case records collection; creates the civil rights cold case records review board which shall assist the archivist in the collection of civil rights cold case records.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Oneida Area Zonta Club on June 1, 202401/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged593.080
Relating to the offense of sexual assault and to the rights of crime victims, including the enforcement of certain rights of sexual assault victims; authorizing a civil penalty.05/27/2025unclassifiedunchanged460.080
Creates a civil cause of action for the manufacture, sale, or distribution of assault weapons or ghost guns within the state; aiding and abetting such manufacture, sale or distribution; or intending to aid and abet in such manufacture, sale or distribution; provides for a civil remedy of ten thousand dollars per violation.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Allows employees to use dysmenorrhea as a reason for use of sick leave.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Allows large volume dealers to collect bottle redemption deposits from distributors upon pick up in the same manner as such bottle redemptions are purchased.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits sex offenders who are on parole and in civil confinement from voting in certain elections.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the deregulation of certain activities and occupations.03/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged534.080
Authorizes the temporary occupancy, for compensation, of a class A multiple dwelling that is a cooperative or condominium unit under certain conditions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Budget Act of 2025.02/02/2026unclassifiedunchanged209.080
Budget Act of 2025.02/02/2026unclassifiedunchanged209.080
Provides additional protections for sensitive health information; requires all health information networks, electronic health record systems, and health care providers to provide patients with a right to restrict the disclosures of such patient's health information; defines terms; provides for exceptions.05/19/2026unclassifiedunchanged103.080
Relates to the definition and registration of mobility dealers.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides for accessing records under the freedom of information law including notification procedures and the release of names of natural persons and residential addresses.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes certain rights for shareholders in limited-profit housing companies.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to imposing a tax of one-half of one percent on all corporate stock buybacks of issued shares.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the "New York City Housing Authority Facilities Modernization Act" which shall assist with the installation, demolition, construction, reconstruction, excavation, rehabilitation, renovation, and repair of projects contracted out by the New York City Housing Authority (Part A); relates to reporting on lead-based paint poisoning prevention (Part B).01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the bank of Rochester, including provisions related to definitions; sponsors and corporate structure; powers and restrictions; governance; charter requirements; financial and operations frameworks; transparency and financial reporting; insurance; deposits; policy mandates; ethics and financial disclosure; inconsistency with other laws; and owners not to be considered bank holding companies.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides for supports and services for unaccompanied minors with no lawful immigration status including legal representation.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the civil rights restoration act; amends provisions regarding firearm licenses and destruction of firearms; exempts certain individuals from providing photographs in order to obtain a firearm license; expands the definition of immediate family.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to strengthening of utility storm response and compliance by reviewing mitigating factors including but not limited to mitigating factors and the specifics surrounding the violation or violations.04/16/2026unclassifiedunchanged136.080
Imposes a duty on a vehicular assailant to support a surviving child of a parent or guardian killed by such person; defines income; provides for a determination of support.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the "standing is tiring (sit) act"; requires employers to provide suitable seats to all employees where the nature of such employees' work reasonably permits seated work; prohibits employers from artificially designing a work space to require standing; requires the department of labor to determine whether the nature of work reasonably permits seated work; creates a private right of action for employees whose employer does not provide seats.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Creates the office of the correctional ombudsperson to achieve transparency, fairness, impartiality and accountability in New York state correctional facilities; relates to reports by coroners; designates investigators of the office of the correctional ombudsperson as peace officers; authorizes the attorney general to investigate the alleged commission of any criminal offense committed by an employee of the department of corrections and community supervision in connection with their official duties; relates to the confidentiality of certain records; includes the office of the correctional ombudsperson records within the definition of public safety agency records; makes related provisions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts "Imette's Law"; mandates that every owner of a cabaret establishment, but which is not a restaurant, shall install security cameras at every entrance and exit of such establishment.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the correction of references to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission.06/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged436.080
Establishes the office of addiction and mental health services; corrects references; makes related provisions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to a report by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board regarding enrollment and success in higher education for students with disabilities.05/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged467.080
Recognizing January 24, 2025, as International Day of Education01/22/2025unclassifiedunchanged585.080
Relating to the exchange of certain information between the Department of Family and Protective Services or certain foster care services contractors and a state or local juvenile justice agency.04/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged488.080
Removes certain provisions relating to preclearance by the civil rights bureau of certain qualifications, prerequisites to voting, laws, ordinances, standards, practices, procedures, regulations, or policies relating to voting.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the repeal of the additional ad valorem taxes imposed as a result of a change of use of certain land.05/05/2025unclassifiedunchanged482.080
Proposing a constitutional amendment affirming the rights and responsibilities of parents.05/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged466.080
Proposing a constitutional amendment protecting the right of parents to raise their children.05/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged473.080
Criminal procedure: Sexually transmitted disease testing.02/02/2026unclassifiedunchanged209.080