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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 wellness program privacy act; requires employers and insurers to take certain measures to protect the security of wellness program participants' private information.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Restricts consecutive hours of work for health care workers except in the case of certain emergencies and surgical procedures.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the fourteenth judicial district which shall consist of the counties of Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Rockland.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Quick-Service Restaurant Young Workforce Apprenticeship Program: tax credits.02/02/2026unclassifiedunchanged209.080
Artificial intelligence program: Attorney General.08/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged366.080
California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transit projects.10/13/2025unclassifiedunchanged321.080
Establishes the Hudson Valley power authority to own and operate electricity service and to create or acquire one or more wholly owned subsidiaries or membership interests in subsidiaries; establishes energy observatory corporations for studying and enabling effective community governance of power authorities; makes related provisions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Waives Unemployment Pandemic Benefits repayments in whole or in part if the payment of such pandemic unemployment assistance was without fault on the part of the claimant and such repayment would be contrary to equity and good conscience.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim June 19, 2025, as Juneteenth Day in the State of New York01/15/2025unclassifiedunchanged592.080
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 18, 2025, as Haitian Unity Day in the State of New York01/22/2025unclassifiedunchanged585.080
Celebrating Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day on November 14, 2025, in recognition of Ruby Bridges' historic contributions to the Civil Rights Movement01/22/2025unclassifiedunchanged585.080
Commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 202501/15/2025unclassifiedunchanged592.080
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim November 20, 2025, as Transgender Day of Remembrance in the State of New York01/22/2025unclassifiedunchanged585.080
Relates to the issuance, records, and delivery of certificates of title; requires the establishment of an electronic lien and title program.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides that all persons have the right to grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health and well-being, and the right to be free from hunger, malnutrition, starvation and the endangerment of life from the scarcity of or lack of access to nourishing food.02/03/2026unclassifiedunchanged208.080
Provides for certain presumptions for reckless driving and the implementation of a reckless driving and vehicular violence awareness component of the pre-licensing course for driver's licenses.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the purchase of or acquisition of title to real property by certain aliens or foreign entities; creating a criminal offense.03/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged534.080
Requires the department of transportation to establish a central registry of reports, audits, plans and public inspections regarding freight rail operators, rail cars and freight lines or routes and rights of way.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January 27, 2025, as Holocaust Remembrance Day in the State of New York01/22/2025unclassifiedunchanged585.080
Establishes a procedure for the creation of new counties; outlines population and area requirements; requires a feasibility study, petition and referendum; makes related provisions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Expands the exemption provided to professional journalists and newscasters from contempt to include employment or association with a web log; defines web log as a website or webpage that contains an online journal containing news, comments and offers hyperlinks provided by the writer.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits mandatory arbitration agreements in consumer and employment contracts; repeals existing provisions prohibiting mandatory arbitration clauses in certain consumer contracts.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Authorizes municipalities and the department of financial services to seek civil penalties for violations of the duty to maintain a foreclosed property in an amount of up to $650 per day for each day such violation persists after the judgement of foreclosure has been issued.04/27/2026unclassifiedunchanged125.080
Recognizing January 19-25, 2025, as National Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists Week.03/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged534.080
Provides for the protection of health information; establishes requirements for communications to individuals about their health information; requires either written consent or a designated necessary purpose for the processing of an individual's health information.01/22/2025unclassifiedunchanged585.080
In memory of Daniel G. Rodriguez Jr. of San Antonio.01/16/2025unclassifiedunchanged591.080
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 certain municipalities to participate in a community-wide energy aggregation program where they can request bids, select an energy service provider, install energy efficiency measures and develop local renewable energy facilities to provide electric and/or gas supply services, including gas efficiency and renewable heating technologies to participating customers.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the Hudson Valley power authority to own and operate electricity service and to create or acquire one or more wholly owned subsidiaries or membership interests in subsidiaries; establishes energy observatory corporations for studying and enabling effective community governance of power authorities; makes related provisions.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.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Grants employees access to personnel records; requires notice of negative information in such records and an opportunity for a review; permits employee to include certain information in personnel records.05/11/2026unclassifiedunchanged111.080
Establishes the green affordable pre-electrification program to assist owners and tenants in residential properties in curing structural and building code defects which render the properties ineligible for improvements or projects relating to energy savings, green-house gas emissions reductions, climate change adaptation and resiliency project grants; establishes the energy efficiency and electrification interagency coordination group to coordinate between certain energy efficiency programs.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits interactive computer service providers from knowingly promoting content to a targeted user and with the intention of developing the content, cause the user extreme emotional harm, physical injury or financial injury.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Repeals and reenacts statute of limitation provisions on wrongful death, personal injury and property damage actions against professional engineers, architects, landscape architects, land surveyors, geologists and construction contractors to provide for a limitations period of ten years after completion of improvement to real property; "completion", which constitutes the accrual date for the limitations period, is defined; provides for a one year extension for injuries to person or property or wrongful death which occur during the tenth year after completion.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to small wireless facility development; defines terms and sets standards and fees; provides a municipal corporation may require a wireless provider to repair all damage to a right of way directly caused by the activities of the wireless provider; provides courts of competent jurisdiction shall have jurisdiction to determine all disputes arising under this article.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires state agencies and courts to take into consideration the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition and contemporary examples of antisemitism when reviewing, investigating, or deciding whether there has been a violation of any non-criminal or criminal law, rule, or policy prohibiting discriminatory acts.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Defines "model management group"; provides for the registration process for model management groups; provides for exemption from registration requirements for model management companies and groups.02/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged562.080
Relates to conversions of real property in public housing developments in relation to the RAD program; sets notice requirements for public housing authorities.05/12/2026unclassifiedunchanged110.080
Authorizes the use of psilocybin to treat qualified medical conditions; prohibits criminal diversion of medical psilocybin.05/08/2026unclassifiedunchanged114.080
Provides that the governmental agency shall notify any person on a special eligible list, in writing, that their name will remain on such list for two years after the termination of military duty and shall be removed at the end of the two year period unless such person requests to remain on such list.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides for the licensing of vision impairment specialists.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to requiring approval by the comptroller for a toll increase by the New York state thruway authority.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides for unpaid leave of absence for victims of domestic violence; permits victims of domestic violence to take an unpaid leave of absence for twenty days from employment to address on-going domestic violence; defines "address on-going domestic violence"; contains provision to protect the individual's job position and benefits.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes an essential workers' bill of rights; provides that all employers shall provide essential workers with personal protective equipment, inform such workers of exposure to any disease related to a state disaster emergency, and not retaliate for any report of an unsafe work environment; provides certain employers shall make hazard payments and cover the costs of any child care or health care needed by such essential workers for the duration of the state disaster emergency.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the "Effective Enforcement of Civil Rights Act"; provides for the enactment and enforcement of local human rights laws.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes a tax credit for companies that employ New York national guard and reserve members in an amount equal to fifteen hundred dollars for each national guard or reserve member employed by such employer and twenty-five hundred dollars for each national guard or reserve member employed by such employer who has completed or returned from a deployment or activation.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Social Security Tenant Protection Act of 2025.10/06/2025unclassifiedunchanged328.080
Housing development: transit-oriented development.10/10/2025unclassifiedunchanged324.080
Relates to the right of public employees and employee organizations to strike; repeals certain provisions relating thereto.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes a leave of absence for veterans on Veterans Day, November 11th.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080