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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
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
Requires the administration for children's services and New York city public school employees provide a verbal and written warning to students of such student's right to refuse an interview and right to have a supportive adult during the interview.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the paired testing program and compliance fee to determine if any real estate broker, real estate salesperson or employee or agent thereof is using unlawful discriminatory practices; creates the paired testing program fund.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the office of census counts and provides for its powers and duties and the New York state census counts commission and provides for its powers and duties; establishes the offense of impersonation of a census enumerator; makes an appropriation therefor.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to the right to unemployment benefits based on employment with certain educational institutions, including the state university of New York, the city university of New York and public community colleges; clarifies the meaning of certain terms relating to such rights to unemployment benefits.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
Relating to recycling of certain renewable energy components; authorizing an administrative penalty.05/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged458.080
Authorizes interactive gaming in the state of New York.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Designating March 15 as the Day to Combat Islamophobia for a 10-year period ending in 2035.03/05/2025unclassifiedunchanged543.080
Requires that no homeless shelter shall be located within five hundred feet of a transit facility.05/14/2026unclassifiedunchanged108.080
Relating to the appointment of a receiver for and sale of certain parcels of land that are abandoned, unoccupied, tax delinquent, and undeveloped in certain municipalities.06/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged436.080
Establishes the green accessible transition authority to promote the transition of the for-hire vehicle and other state industries to environmentally sustainable practices and increase universal accessibility of for-hire vehicles, paratransit services, and taxi services statewide; establishes a for-hire vehicle improvement surcharge for each for-hire transportation trip conducted in a transportation network company vehicle or by a high-volume for-hire service; makes an appropriation therefor.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the criminal and licensing consequences of certain offenses relating to the possession of marihuana, certain tetrahydrocannabinols, certain synthetic cannabinoids, and drug paraphernalia; imposing a fee.04/15/2025unclassifiedunchanged502.080
Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing a parent's right to direct a child's education.03/24/2025unclassifiedunchanged524.080
In memory of Jennifer Joy Mattingly of Round Rock.06/01/2025unclassifiedunchanged455.080
Relating to renaming the Sunset Advisory Commission as the Sunset Legislative Initiative for Cost Efficiency Advisory Commission and the duties of that commission.03/10/2025unclassifiedunchanged538.080
Relating to the combination of certain election precincts.03/10/2025unclassifiedunchanged538.080
Physician assistants and podiatrists.10/01/2025unclassifiedunchanged333.080
California Massage Therapy Council.10/01/2025unclassifiedunchanged333.080
Relative to Nowroz.03/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged528.080
Recognizing March 19, 2025, as Texas NAACP Day at the State Capitol.04/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged496.080
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.03/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged528.080
Relating to procedures and grounds for termination of the parent-child relationship.05/10/2025unclassifiedunchanged477.080
In memory of retired judge L. Clifford Davis of Arlington.06/01/2025unclassifiedunchanged455.080
Relating to certain payment recovery and recoupment efforts under Medicaid and the child health plan program.03/10/2025unclassifiedunchanged538.080
Authorizes the village of Port Chester to offer an optional twenty-year retirement plan to Michael Sprague, a police officer employed by such village since January 7, 2013.06/10/2025unclassifiedunchanged446.080
Relating to certain procedures in suits affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services.05/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged473.080
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.03/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged528.080
Creates a homeowners' bill of rights; directs the superintendent of financial services to issue a consumer guide on insuring against catastrophic losses.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the physician assistant licensure compact; authorizing a fee.03/10/2025unclassifiedunchanged538.080
Relating to limitations on certain suits to recover real property held by another in adverse possession; the unauthorized sale, rental, lease, or advertisement for sale, rental, or lease of real property; and the removal of certain unauthorized occupants of a dwelling; creating a criminal offense; authorizing a fee.03/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged528.080
Enacts the child custody reform act to provide uniform statewide standards for the litigation and mediation of child custody disputes; provides for an initial planning conference between the judge and all parties to attempt a settlement; provides for mediation unless the court finds mediation is inappropriate; requires the chief administrator of the courts to establish plans for the conduct of administration of the mediation and preparation of evaluation reports.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides certain warranties and protections for purchasers of new and used motor vehicles; includes commercial and business purchasers under the Lemon Law.02/09/2026unclassifiedunchanged202.080
Requires the Olympic regional development authority, in consultation with the department of environmental conservation and division of human rights to develop an anti-bias and inclusion training to be completed by employees of such agencies annually.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas to conduct gaming by executing a gaming compact with this state; providing for occupational licensing under the compact; limiting certain taxes and fees.03/24/2025unclassifiedunchanged524.080
Relates to claim settlement practices when an insurer refuses to pay or is delaying payment of a settlement; provides a policyholder a private right of action against such insurer doing business in the state who has refused or delayed payment of an insurance claim.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits employment discrimination against persons whose criminal charges have been adjourned in contemplation of dismissal.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the training of prospective grand jurors and to grand jury proceedings.03/11/2025unclassifiedunchanged537.080
Relating to a property and casualty self-insurance pool for certain religious institutions; authorizing fees; providing administrative penalties.05/28/2025unclassifiedunchanged459.080
Relating to the administration by the Texas Water Development Board of the Texas Water Bank and certain funds and accounts.03/11/2025unclassifiedunchanged537.080
Relating to the establishment of a constable's department civil service system in certain counties; creating a criminal offense.05/13/2025unclassifiedunchanged474.080
Recognizing April 4, 2025, as Texas HBCU Day.03/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged534.080
Creates the real property regulatory impacts act; provides that the owner of any real property may bring an action against the state whenever the application of any state statute, rule or regulation to such property causes a diminution in value of fifty percent or more.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the purposes for which the Texas Water Bank and the Texas Water Trust may accept and hold water rights.05/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged473.080
Relating to a public school student's transition from an alternative education program to a regular educational environment, including parental rights related to that transition, and the admission of certain students with a criminal or disciplinary history.03/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged527.080
Relating to the preservation and release of video surveillance recordings of special education settings.05/13/2025unclassifiedunchanged474.080
Requires washing machines sold after a certain date to contain a microfiber filtration system that meets certain specifications.03/12/2026unclassifiedunchanged171.080
Honoring Hargie Faye Savoy for her service to the Port Arthur community.04/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged496.080
Provides for eminent domain reform; creates the "home and property protection act"; creates a temporary state commission to examine eminent domain laws.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Authorizes state assistance to municipalities containing exempt privately owned forest lands; expands categories of lands eligible for certain property tax exemptions as forest lands; authorizes tax exemptions for certain conservation easement tracts; provides for violations of certain provisions relating to filing for tax exemptions of forest lands.05/19/2026unclassifiedunchanged103.080