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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
Last changed
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Coverage
12/02/2024–08/28/2026
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RecordRecord DateVuga GroupChange StatusRecency DaysPublic Significance Score
Relating to sheriff's department civil service systems in certain counties.03/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged534.080
Names an office for people with developmental disabilities facility located in the borough of Manhattan the "Willie Mae 'Goody' Goodman Community Facility".01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Preserves the ability to appeal a violation of a defendant's right to make a statement personally at sentencing notwithstanding a defendant signed an otherwise valid waiver of appeal.05/12/2026unclassifiedunchanged110.080
Establishes a procedure for the creation of new counties; outlines population and area requirements; requires a feasibility study, petition and referendum; makes related provisions.09/08/2025unclassifiedunchanged356.080
Establishes the Marshall plan for moms interagency task force to examine, issue proposals and make recommendations on multiple policy areas to address the disproportionate burden mothers have weathered from the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires age verification for internet pornography websites; imposes a $50,000 penalty per day for violations; provides exemptions for news organizations.05/21/2026unclassifiedunchanged101.080
Provides certain warranties and protections for purchasers of new and used motor vehicles; includes commercial and business purchasers under the Lemon Law.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits and regulates the discovery and disclosure of immigration status; prohibits police officers, peace officers, school resource officers, probation agencies, state entities, state employees, and municipal corporations from questioning individuals regarding their citizenship or immigration status; regulates the disclosure of information relating to immigration status; prohibits an educational agency, higher education agency, school employee, school safety personnel, or third-party contractor from collecting information about a person's citizenship, immigration status, nationality, or country of origin, unless required by law or necessary to administer a public program or benefit sought by such person.02/11/2026unclassifiedunchanged200.080
Provides that the acquisition of interests or rights in real property for the preservation of open spaces and areas shall constitute a public purpose for which public funds may be expended or advanced.09/08/2025unclassifiedunchanged356.080
Establishes a civil cause of action for employees who are subjected to an abusive work environment; provides employers shall be vicariously liable for such work environment.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Local public employee organizations: notice requirements.10/13/2025unclassifiedunchanged321.080
Employer-employee relations: confidential communications.08/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged366.080
Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program.08/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged366.080
Authorizes local municipalities and political subdivisions to have final say on if a renewable energy power plant can be sited in such municipalities' or political subdivisions' jurisdiction; establishes conflict of interest standards for approving the siting of a renewable energy power plant in a local municipality or political subdivision; requires the office of renewable energy siting and electric transmissions establish a database to collect and display host agreements and land contracts for renewable energy power plants; establishes contract standards concerning the forfeiture of mineral rights for the siting of renewable energy power plants; regulates the conduct of businesses engaged in the conduct of selling renewable energy power plants.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
Requires fair business practices in franchises.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to decreasing the length of the suspension period applicable to certain individuals who lose their jobs due to a labor dispute, such as a strike, and who seek to obtain unemployment insurance benefits; decreases the suspension period from two consecutive weeks to one week; provides that the waiting period and suspension period shall be served concurrently.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides a judicial remedy to resolve complaints related to utility bills that have an alleged amount of damages exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars.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
Relating to the provision of virtual education in public schools and to certain waivers and modifications by the commissioner of education to the method of calculating average daily attendance in an emergency or crisis for purposes of preserving school district funding entitlements under the Foundation School Program during that emergency or crisis; authorizing a fee.04/17/2025unclassifiedunchanged500.080
Establishes that consumer litigation funding transactions should be subject to state regulation and sets forth requirements regarding disclosure, licensing, funding company and attorney responsibilities and limitations, violations and other provisions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Sets up rules and regulations for the operation of lease-hold retirement communities to provide adequate housing for senior citizens wishing to retire and locate in a lease-hold retirement community; grants owners of homes in lease-hold retirement communities the right to sell their homes by methods common to sales of residential property; requires that owners of lease-hold retirement communities offer owners of homes the option to sign a long-term ninety-nine year lease.04/15/2025unclassifiedunchanged502.080
Prohibits sharing or selling personal data to third parties by government entities and contractors.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides that an insurer doing business in this state shall be liable to a policy holder for such insurer's refusal to pay or unreasonable delay of payment to the policy holder if such refusal or delay was not substantially justified; enumerates instances whereby an insurer's refusal or delay of payment is not substantially justified including intentional negligence, failure to act in good faith, failure to provide written denial of claim, failure to make final determination of claim within six months, and failure to promptly proceed with the appraisal process.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Authorizes the city of New York to impose a personal income surcharge on high income residents to fund transit improvements.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to the modification of the procedure for interviews of parole applicants and to the disclosure of parole applicant records.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
Relating to the protection of an unborn child's rights and criminal liability and justification for prohibited conduct.04/22/2025unclassifiedunchanged495.080
Restricts a law enforcement officer from initiating a traffic stop for certain violations of the vehicle and traffic law; provides for the suppression or exclusion of evidence obtained in violation of such provisions; relates to the duties of the division of criminal justice services making certain information pertaining to traffic stops public.02/06/2025unclassifiedunchanged570.080
Requires employers to submit an affirmative acknowledgement of implementing a sexual harassment prevention policy which meets or exceeds the minimum standards upon the completion of the employer's annual training or the training of a newly hired employee.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the bureau of the senior tenants' advocate within the state office for the aging; provides that the senior tenants' advocate shall assist senior citizen tenants in resolving complaints they may have with the New York state division of housing and community renewal, landlord disputes, rent increases, and other housing related matters; provides that the governor shall appoint the senior tenants' advocate.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires a course of instruction on the provisions of the federalist papers and the United States constitution to be provided to high school students.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits a court from providing for visitation or custody of a minor who is a U.S. citizen to a person who resides outside the U.S. when the other party to such action is a U.S. citizen and objects to such an order.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Protects the rights of people in prisons, jails and forensic facilities; limits the use of cell or segregated confinement; grants access to tablets, visitation, and certain items.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Creates the office of older adult workforce development within the office for the aging to address the needs of older adults regarding the workplace.03/10/2026unclassifiedunchanged173.080
Relating to procedures and grounds related to the removal and placement of children, including for terminating the parent-child relationship, for taking possession of a child, and for certain hearings in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed by a governmental entity.05/07/2025unclassifiedunchanged480.080
Establishes the "recovery ready workplace act" which provides for the certification of an employer to become a recovery ready workplace; defines terms; establishes the recovery-ready workplace program; provides criteria for employers to obtain certification as a recovery ready workplace; provides for employee involvement.06/10/2025unclassifiedunchanged446.080
Relates to adding certain notice requirements for enforcing liens on goods in self-storage facilities.03/30/2026unclassifiedunchanged153.080
Prohibits the eviction of tenants for using medical marihuana for a certified medical use.03/24/2026unclassifiedunchanged159.080
Relating to policy-making authority of constables for the purpose of a federal civil rights action.05/15/2025unclassifiedunchanged472.080
Honoring Frances "Poppy" Northcutt for her professional and civic achievements.04/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged496.080
Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of the Texas severance tax revenue and oil and natural gas (Texas STRONG) defense fund, dedicating the money in that fund to benefit areas of the state significantly affected by oil and gas production, and providing for the transfer of certain general revenues to that fund, the economic stabilization fund, and certain other funds and accounts.02/24/2025unclassifiedunchanged552.080
Relating to the adoption of the Uniform Easement Relocation Act.02/24/2025unclassifiedunchanged552.080
Relating to the creation of the Alzheimer's Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.02/13/2025unclassifiedunchanged563.080
Relating to the terminology used in statute to refer to the partially landlocked body of water on the southeastern periphery of the North American continent.03/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged534.080
Establishes the student loan borrower bill of rights to protect borrowers and ensure that student loan servicers act more as loan counselors than debt collectors.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the combination of certain election precincts.05/24/2025unclassifiedunchanged463.080
Relating to firearms; authorizing a private civil right of action.03/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged534.080
Relating to procedures under the public information law, including expedited responses and charges for bad faith requests.05/10/2025unclassifiedunchanged477.080
Proposing a constitutional amendment regarding the terminology used in the Texas Constitution to refer to the partially landlocked body of water on the southeastern periphery of the North American continent.03/17/2025unclassifiedunchanged531.080