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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
Authorizes industrial development agencies to provide technical and financial assistance to agricultural producers for products grown, harvested or produced within the state.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to the creation of the "No Hate NY" license plate and the "No Hate NY fund" to support hate crime awareness and prevention programs.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Factors domestic violence convictions into family court decisions regarding visitation, custody and parental rights; provides that any parent undergoing mandatory, batterer specific rehabilitation measures shall only be granted supervised visitation.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides specific requirements for a course of instruction relating to the Holocaust and genocide.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
Enacts provisions relating to collective negotiations by health care providers with certain health care plans in certain counties; applies to health benefit plans that provide benefits for medical or surgical expenses incurred as a result of a health condition, accident or sickness, including an individual, group, blanket or franchise insurance policy or insurance agreement offered by certain enumerated entities.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
Enacts the small insurer protection act prohibiting the filing of an application for an order of rehabilitation or liquidation of a small insurer on certain grounds unless such order is based on: the superintendent's adoption of a report on examination finding the company insolvent; or the annual or quarterly financial statements of the company, which show that the company's admitted assets do not exceed its liabilities and surplus to policyholders if the company does not maintain reserves in an amount determined reasonable by its independent loss reserve specialist or its appointed actuary.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the "language barrier elimination act" to provide translations to limited English proficient individuals in connection with services provided through the department of labor, department of family assistance or department of health.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Creates, in addition to the existing sanction of criminal contempt of court, the remedies of labor law civil penalties and employee's right to bring civil action for unlawful discharge, penalty or discrimination on account of the exercise by an employee of a juror's right to be absent from employment by reason of jury service.04/06/2026unclassifiedunchanged146.080
Relates to the practice of professional geology.01/22/2026unclassifiedunchanged220.080
Provides for automatic enrollment and recertification simplification for Medicaid managed care plans and long term care plans.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits the use of cell-site simulators by law enforcement officers; provides a right of action for violations of such prohibition.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the crime of aggravated offering of a false accusation against a peace officer or police officer for knowingly reporting false or baseless information relating to wrongdoing by a police or peace officer to a law enforcement agency; creates a private right of action for damages.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to rights of crime victims, including the enforcement of certain rights of sexual assault victims; authorizing a civil penalty.05/09/2025unclassifiedunchanged478.080
Relating to orders providing for the conservatorship of or possession of and access to a child by the child's parents in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.02/13/2025unclassifiedunchanged563.080
State holidays: Diwali.10/06/2025unclassifiedunchanged328.080
Contracts: consumer goods and services: dispute resolution provisions.10/06/2025unclassifiedunchanged328.080
State Department of Health Care Services: substance abuse treatment: disclosures.10/06/2025unclassifiedunchanged328.080
Relates to construction of voting machines and systems.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Commemorating the observance of the 40th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the State of New York, on January 20, 202501/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged586.080
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.01/12/2026unclassifiedunchanged230.080
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.04/29/2026unclassifiedunchanged123.080
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.02/11/2026unclassifiedunchanged200.080
Commemorating the observance of the 40th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the State of New York, on January 20, 202501/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged586.080
Relates to false or misleading advertisements of food and food products; provides factors to determine whether an advertisement is false or misleading; provides for enforcement and a private right of action.04/22/2026unclassifiedunchanged130.080
Establishes an independent inspector general in each county to oversee police activity and investigate allegations of police misconduct.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes a New York state education equity fund; authorizes the dormitory authority of the state of New York (DASNY) to invest $75 million in a public-private partnership revolving loan fund for loan financing to cover capital costs for the construction and improvements of public charter schools.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the New York state pre-paid tuition plan by which a person may contribute to an account for the pre-payment of college tuition, tax free.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Regulates construction employers to keep their employees safe from exposure to extreme heat by implementing heat-related illness prevention plans.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
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.04/30/2026unclassifiedunchanged122.080
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.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.04/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged139.080
Establishes a pilot program to provide grants to local education providers to implement high-impact tutoring programs prioritizing low-income or underserved students to address student learning loss or unfinished learning resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.04/10/2026unclassifiedunchanged142.080
Provides for supports and services for unaccompanied minors with no lawful immigration status including legal representation.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes certain rights upon the expiration of ground lease residential cooperative apartment buildings.05/12/2026unclassifiedunchanged110.080
Authorizes certain licensed health service professionals to form limited liability companies.02/03/2026unclassifiedunchanged208.080
Provides for the establishment of the New York state home equity conversion information summary to provide notice of mortgagor's right and responsibilities under reverse mortgage loans issued under the home equity conversion mortgage program of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development; provides that every authorized lender must provide copies of such summary not less than 5 days prior to closing on a reverse mortgage loan; establishes a private right of action for violations of such provisions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to designating blighted property and blighted areas; establishes criteria for designation; provides definition of blighted property and blighted areas; amends definition of substandard or insanitary area by removing the words "slum" and "deteriorated or deteriorating".01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Creates the New York title guaranty authority to initiate and operate a program which shall offer guaranties of real property titles in this state.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires law enforcement and courts to notify the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) when an arrested person or defendant is not a United States citizen; adjusts certain maximum sentences for class A misdemeanors and unclassified misdemeanors; requires notification to be made to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency prior to the release of certain noncitizens; repeals provisions of the "protect our courts act".05/18/2026unclassifiedunchanged104.080
Enacts "Cecilia's act for rights in the sex trades"; decriminalizes certain prostitution offenses; amends provisions relating to prosecution of such offenses and vacating judgments.05/12/2026unclassifiedunchanged110.080
Relates to the employment of veterans with disabilities program.05/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged473.080
Removes the exclusion of part-time employees from certain definitions relating to employment and expanding the definition of employer; removes certain exclusions for employer notice requirements for the closing of a facility; removes the discretionary reduction of penalties for employers for certain acts or omissions concerning notice requirements for mass layoffs, relocations or employment loss; removes the maximum time period for determining back pay and other liabilities for certain employees who experience employment loss; allows the attorney general to take certain action to assist certain employees in receiving back pay and other liabilities; requires employers to pay severance to employees when there is a plant closing, relocation, or mass layoff.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Act: sales and use tax exclusion.10/01/2025unclassifiedunchanged333.080
Enacts the housing development fund company fairness, preservation, and affordability act to clarify certain provisions relating to the dissolution and reincorporation of housing development fund companies; provides for tax exemptions and abatements for housing development fund companies.01/28/2026unclassifiedunchanged214.080
Enacts the "empire state of mind act" relating to the treatment of mentally ill persons in the realm of treatment in mental health and addiction services facilities, the penal system and social services.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires the commissioner of the department of taxation and finance to establish and maintain a system for use by the clerk of each county in the state outside of the city of New York that provides the ability for the clerk to send notification to any interested party that a deed-related or mortgage-related document affecting such party's interest in real property located in the state has been recorded against such property with the office of the clerk of the county in which the real property is situated; provides for registration for notification by interested parties.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the solar for schools act which provides grants for eligible school districts to purchase and install solar and geothermal power sources; defines terms; directs the New York state energy and research development authority to establish such grant program; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof; makes an appropriation therefor.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the authority of certain medical consenters to assume financial responsibility for certain out-of-network medical care provided to children in foster care.05/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged466.080