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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
5,000
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Coverage
12/02/2024–08/28/2026
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RecordRecord DateVuga GroupChange StatusRecency DaysPublic Significance Score
Allows certain employees to transfer or receive sick time from a fellow employee.01/28/2026unclassifiedunchanged214.080
Relates to safe staffing for public employees of institutional settings by setting maximum overtime levels.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Recognizing January 27, 2025, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.01/28/2025unclassifiedunchanged579.080
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
Precludes inadmissible statements made by defendants because of false facts about evidence or because of a statement that undermines the reliability of the defendant's statement; requires data collection and analysis by the division of criminal justice services of recorded interrogations.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prevents interactive computer service providers from knowingly or negligently promoting developed content that is dangerous or otherwise injurious to minors; assesses a civil penalty to social media networks that knowingly or negligently promote such content.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
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
Incorporates the 2022 Uniform Law Commission recommended amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code to provide for emerging technologies; addresses emerging technologies, providing updated rules for commercial transactions involving virtual currencies, distributed ledger technologies (including blockchain), artificial intelligence, and other technological developments.12/05/2025unclassifiedunchanged268.080
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.09/08/2025unclassifiedunchanged356.080
Prohibits insurance companies from discriminating based on genetic predisposition including refusing to issue or renew, charging any increased rate, or restricting any length of coverage; prohibits insurers from requiring genetic testing.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Commemorating January 27, 2025, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.01/27/2025unclassifiedunchanged580.080
Provides for the regulation of motorized scooters including registration, safety and equipment, prohibitions on unsafe operation and insurance requirements.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Proposes a constitutional amendment to divide the state into three autonomous regions; the New Amsterdam Region, the New York Region and the Montauk Region; provides regional governors and regional legislators; provides only for a state sales tax; divides various departments and agencies; provides for separate court systems and prison systems.02/03/2026unclassifiedunchanged208.080
Relates to the establishment of a wage data clearinghouse to evaluate the long-term effectiveness of workforce development and education programs in the state.01/23/2026unclassifiedunchanged219.080
Enacts the "Renewable Capitol act"; requires the office of general services, in consultation with the power authority of the state of New York, to ensure that all operations that power, heat or cool the empire state plaza complex shall entirely use renewable energy systems; requires the office of general services to establish an advisory committee to advise the office of general services on the preparation, design and content of a plan for the use of renewable energy systems.03/16/2026unclassifiedunchanged167.080
Recognizing January 29, 2025, as Alpha Kappa Alpha Day.01/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged578.080
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.05/19/2026unclassifiedunchanged103.080
Commemorating the 190th anniversary of the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2, 2026.05/23/2025unclassifiedunchanged464.080
Prohibits a property owner from enforcing or adopting a restriction that prohibits one or more religious items from being displayed or affixed on any entry door or entry doorframe of a dwelling.07/02/2025unclassifiedunchanged424.080
Commemorating January 27, 2025, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.01/27/2025unclassifiedunchanged580.080
Commemorating the 189th anniversary of the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2, 2025.04/09/2025unclassifiedunchanged508.080
Relates to the rights of tenants to display the flag of the United States.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires motorists to exercise care to avoid colliding with any domestic or companion animal; increases fines and penalties for causing such injury and for leaving the scene of injury to certain animals without reporting.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the Brooklyn-Queens expressway authority for the purposes of the continuance, further development and improvement of transportation along the Brooklyn-Queens expressway and other services related thereto.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires each institution of higher education to make publicly available its policy on notifying the parent, guardian, or emergency contact of a student under twenty-one of certain controlled substance and alcohol violations, including rule infractions, and controlled substance or alcohol related hospitalizations or overdoses; requires such colleges and institutions to conduct regular training on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.12/05/2025unclassifiedunchanged268.080
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
Relates to prohibiting retaliation against individuals who request a reasonable accommodation.12/05/2025unclassifiedunchanged268.080
Relates to providing information to patients and the public on hospital rule-based exclusions; requires the commissioner of health to collect from each hospital a list of its hospital rule-based exclusions and publish such information on the department's website.12/19/2025unclassifiedunchanged254.080
Relates to the number of senators and the apportionment of senate districts; provides that each senate district shall be comprised of one county in its entirety.02/03/2026unclassifiedunchanged208.080
Requires notice to be provided ninety days prior to commencement of a foreclosure action by a homeowners' association or condominium board to enforce a lien for unpaid common charges, assessments, fines or fees.10/16/2025unclassifiedunchanged318.080
Enacts the bucks for boilers act, which creates a program to aid in transition of housing units to electric heat pumps and other high energy efficiency upgrades.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Directs a criminal court to establish a period of commitment for persons found not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect; a person so committed shall not be eligible for release from the custody of the commissioner of mental health or the commissioner of developmental disabilities until completion of the period of commitment.05/18/2026unclassifiedunchanged104.080
Makes various provisions to reform local development corporations and industrial development agencies: conflicts of interest, standard tax exemption policies, municipal input, more information to be made public, economic impact statements, public hearings, and payment of prevailing wages.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the "faith-based affordable housing act" for development on residential land; defines terms; provides that each village, town, and city shall allow the construction and occupation of residential buildings on any covered site up to the specified densities; provides that all residential buildings constructed pursuant to this section in a town, village, or city with fewer than one million inhabitants shall set aside twenty percent of the residential floor area for households earning an average of eighty percent of area median income; outlines the densities for New York city; makes related provisions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Urging Congress to propose and submit to the states for ratification the "Keep Nine" amendment to the U.S. Constitution.06/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged436.080
California Healthy Youth Act: adoption.05/13/2025unclassifiedunchanged474.080
Elections: duties of election officials: voter information guides.08/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged366.080
Relates to the employee status of an individual; establishes criteria for determining whether labor or services performed for remuneration qualify as employment.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the unauthorized entry, occupancy, sale, rental, lease, advertisement for sale, rental, or lease, or conveyance of real property, including the removal of certain unauthorized occupants of a dwelling; creating criminal offenses; increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing a fee.03/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged534.080
Bans the sale of employment data reports without written consumer consent; provides such employment data reports shall include, but not be limited to, payroll and earnings information, hours worked, consumer history and health insurance information.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires hospitals and healthcare facilities which provide emergency services to develop plans to provide reasonable accommodations to house a patient's service animal until such time as they can be picked up.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides that all residential leases shall contain a detailed description of tenant's statutory rights including among others, warranty of habitability, willful violation of lease, right to participate in tenants' associations, no eviction for good faith complaint, utility payment offset and sublet rights; grants tenant the right to install extra locks; sets out landlord obligations with respect to heating and oil delivery.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Adopts the Physical Therapy Licensure Compact (Part A); adopts the Interstate Occupational Therapy Compact (Part B); adopts the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact (Part C).01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to the investment of public funds in companies doing business in Iran.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Authorizes cities and towns, except a city with a population of one million or more, to establish community preservation funds; authorizes such cities and towns to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited in such funds; makes related provisions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Allocates fines imposed on real estate appraisers to the anti-discrimination in housing fund; provides that a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars may be imposed on real estate appraisers for certain acts or omissions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Implements additional restrictions on actions to recover overpayment of certain assistance.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the New York state museum partnership trust to serve as a focal point for the receipt and administration of private gifts, devises and bequests of real and personal property donated to further historic preservation, advance cultural education, and enhance the state museum; makes an appropriation of $250,000 for the hiring of an executive director of the trust.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits employers from using the federal electronic employment verification system to check the employment authorization status of an existing employee or an applicant who has not been offered employment and prohibits municipalities from requiring employers to use the federal electronic employment verification system.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the "keep police radio public act"; ensures that, except for sensitive information, all radio communications are accessible to emergency services organizations and professional journalists.12/19/2025unclassifiedunchanged254.080