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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
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 that an organization applying for grant funding shall provide to arts agencies a certification that it will enter into a labor peace agreement with at least one bona fide labor organization either where such bona fide labor organization is actively representing employees providing services covered by the organization seeking such grant funding or upon notice by a bona fide labor organization that is attempting to represent employees who will provide services to the organization seeking such grant funding; relates to prevailing wage requirements for not-for-profit theaters and payment of their employees on productions funded by the New York state council on the arts or arts agencies of localities.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Creates the "protection of adults with mental disabilities act" to provide for fair and meaningful due process proceedings relating to a proposed change of placement, a proposed change in service or denial of services by the offices of the department of mental hygiene.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires employers of retail, food service or cleaning employees to give such employees 7 days' notice of their work schedule and a month's notice of the minimum hours of work; provides a private right of action to employees who are aggrieved by certain violations of such provisions.01/30/2025unclassifiedunchanged577.080
Prohibits the eviction of small commercial tenants in the city of New York without good cause.01/30/2025unclassifiedunchanged577.080
Requires inspections of child day care homes, programs and facilities include the full premises; requires providers of a family day care home or group family day care home to disclose to the office of children and family services all persons who reside in the home where child day care is being provided; requires all providers of child day care to receive training for, provide and maintain onsite opioid antagonists for use during emergencies.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Changes the name of the walkway over the Hudson bridge to the Eleanor Roosevelt Walkway.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the reimaging excess New York state property act; provides the reimaging excess New York state property authority shall purchase any abandoned, surplus or otherwise unused state-owned real property and reconstruct, renovate, replace, maintain, repair, enlarge, extend, operate, lease, as lessee or lessor, and/or regulate the repurposing of such properties.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to privacy rights involving digitization; provides that such right of privacy and action for injunction and damages shall include a portrait, picture, likeness or voice created or altered by digitization.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes an office of the transit riders advocate to receive and resolve complaints affecting mass transit users of facilities of the metropolitan transportation authority.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits mandatory COVID-19 vaccination; limits civil liability of employers; prohibits requiring vaccination for education, employment, travel or other activities; enacts a vaccine bill of rights.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Adopts the psychology interjurisdictional compact (Part A); adopts the recognition of emergency medical services personnel licensure interstate compact (Part B); adopts the interstate counseling compact (Part C).01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Adopts the Interstate Massage Compact to support the mobility of licensed massage therapists by creating an additional licensing pathway to create reciprocity among participant states and reduce the barriers to license portability.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to required findings for the issuance of a protective order.05/13/2025unclassifiedunchanged474.080
Clarifies the definition of a paid firefighter to include firefighters employed by the division of military and naval affairs for the purpose of receiving certain benefits as other firefighters.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to personal bond offices, to the notification provided to a judge regarding tampering with an electronic monitoring device while released on bond or community supervision, and to the availability of certain information regarding a person required to submit to an electronic monitoring program or being supervised by a community supervision and corrections department.05/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged458.080
Relates to employee access to lactation rooms in the workplace; requires that employers post written policies regarding the rights of nursing employees.05/21/2026unclassifiedunchanged101.080
Clarifying that the 1972 ratification by the 62nd Texas Legislature, 2nd Called Session, of the proposed 1972 Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was only valid through March 22, 1979.03/05/2025unclassifiedunchanged543.080
Codifies the disparate impact standard in the human rights law; provides that in cases of alleged housing discrimination, an unlawful discriminatory practice may be established by a practice's discriminatory effect.12/19/2025unclassifiedunchanged254.080
Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training.07/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged412.080
Medicare supplement coverage: open enrollment periods.02/02/2026unclassifiedunchanged209.080
Relating to searches of the state registry of paternity.05/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged467.080
Enacts the "Equal Access to Health and Human Services for Limited English Speaking Individuals Act"; directs certain state agencies to provide language assistance services for persons seeking family assistance, health or labor services; requires record keeping; requires free translation for 22 languages.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Creates the New York state home ownership savings plan; creates a property tax exemption related thereto; creates exemptions for properties purchased in target areas with a New York state home ownership savings plan.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides for voluntary certification of certified recovery community centers.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes a task force to study and assess the condition of African American men in New York; provides such task force shall consist of 17 members and report its findings no later than December 31, 2026.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
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
Specifies watershed protection improvement districts may work towards the preservation of development rights.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Creates the New York Civil Gideon Act.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides for the disposition of certain fines and penalties; directs such fines to a conservation enforcement account in the state conservation fund.05/14/2026unclassifiedunchanged108.080
Relates to civil actions for deprivation of constitutional rights; provides that a peace officer employed by a local government, who under color of law, subjects or causes to be subjected, including failing to intervene, any other person to the deprivation of any individual rights that create binding obligations on government actors secured by the bill of rights, article one of the state constitution, is liable to the injured party for legal or equitable relief or any other appropriate relief; provides that statutory immunities and statutory limitations on liability, damages or attorney fees shall not apply; governmental immunity shall not be a defense to liability; and qualified immunity shall not be a defense to liability.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the "Safe Staffing for Hospital Care Act"; establishes minimum staffing levels for various health care workers in different health care facilities; requires submission of staffing plans; prohibits most mandatory overtime.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Exempts small business enterprises that manufacture metal or vinyl windows and doors from certain employee limits and personal net worth limits for purposes of certification of a minority-owned business enterprise.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to traffic stops conducted by law enforcement officers; defines "racial profiling"; authorizes division of criminal justice services to conduct a study relating to racial profiling; prohibits use of race or ethnicity of an individual as the sole factor in determining the existence of probable cause to place such person under arrest or take into custody.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Creates the fourteenth judicial district consisting of the county of Monroe; provides for continuation of the seventh judicial district and the positions of certain seventh and fourteenth judicial district justices; makes related provisions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides that the dignity for all students act shall apply to private, religious or denominational educational institutions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Authorizes the trading of existing but unused research and development credits and existing but unused net operating loss deductions to existing corporations and partnerships in return for private assistance; enacts the "Small New York Based High-Technology Business Investment Tax Credit Act".01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the "New York accountability in reporting act"; establishes the crimes of offering a false report for filing in the second degree and offering a false report for filing in the first degree; requires the creation of public databases for false reporting; provides for a civil remedy for convictions of such crimes.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
Removes party lines from ballots and has candidates' names appearing only once on a ballot for an office for all elections that are not presidential or gubernatorial.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to enacting the "N.Y. state digital equity plan act"; requires the division of broadband access to develop a state digital equity plan to increase broadband access to underserved populations by January 1, 2027.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
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
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
Permits judicial discretion based on dangerousness when issuing a securing order; allows for limited pre-trial detention upon such a determination; extends the time period for discovery from twenty to forty-five days; permits the immediate issuance of a bench warrant for failure to appear for certain principals charged with hate crimes; places restrictions on when appearance tickets may be issued.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires employers to provide notice of insurance requirements for injured employees to such employees in their native language; requires employers to provide notice of how to file a claim to injured workers; establishes a penalty for failure to comply with such notice requirements.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the regulation of residential solar retail transactions; requiring an occupational registration; authorizing fees; providing civil and administrative penalties.06/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged436.080
Includes the Sandy Ground community, the oldest continuously inhabited free black settlement in the United States, in the education curriculum.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Allows parents and legal guardians to work from home; allows flexible working arrangements during a public health emergency or state or local disaster emergency which closes schools or day care centers; defines terms; creates a rebuttable presumption that an employee can work remotely if such employee has done so for two consecutive pay periods or two weeks; creates a civil penalty for violations.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the "trapped at work act"; prohibits the use of employment promissory notes.06/12/2025unclassifiedunchanged444.080
Includes stormwater in the definition of sewage for purposes of certain water, sewer, and water and sewer authorities; defines stormwater.05/19/2026unclassifiedunchanged103.080