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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
Renames the state board of parole the state board of re-entry; makes conforming changes.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
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.04/16/2025unclassifiedunchanged501.080
Relates to returnable bottles; adds noncarbonated soft drinks, certain noncarbonated fruit or vegetable juices, coffee and tea beverages, carbonated fruit beverages and cider to the definition of "beverage"; provides that beginning April 1, 2027, the handling fee will be six cents for each beverage container accepted by a deposit initiator from a dealer or operator of a redemption center; directs the multi-agency bottle bill fraud investigation team to submit a report on findings of pervasive bottle redemption fraud in New York state.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the terminology used in statute, resolutions, rules, and other state publications to refer to the partially landlocked body of water on the southeastern periphery of the North American continent.04/28/2025unclassifiedunchanged489.080
Relating to certain rights of crime victims and witnesses and associated persons and to victim impact statements.05/12/2025unclassifiedunchanged475.080
Commemorating the 189th anniversary of the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2, 2025.03/04/2025unclassifiedunchanged544.080
Relating to the transfer of the licensing and regulation of charitable bingo to the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation.05/02/2025unclassifiedunchanged485.080
Relating to the administration of assessment instruments in public schools, eliminating the requirement to use public school assessment instruments as a criterion for promotion or graduation, and the temporary suspension of certain accountability determinations for a school district or campus in a school year in which the operations of the district or campus are disrupted as a result of a declared disaster.03/24/2025unclassifiedunchanged524.080
Relating to the formation, governance, and internal management of domestic entities.05/01/2025unclassifiedunchanged486.080
In memory of L. Clifford Davis of Tarrant County.03/04/2025unclassifiedunchanged544.080
Relating to the eviction from real property of certain persons not entitled to enter, occupy, or remain in possession of the premises.05/12/2025unclassifiedunchanged475.080
Recognizing 125 years of Black aviation history.03/04/2025unclassifiedunchanged544.080
Relating to the authority of certain persons to obtain third-party review of plats and property development plans, permits, and similar documents, and the inspection of an improvement related to such a document.05/26/2025unclassifiedunchanged461.080
Relating to the Social Work Licensure Compact; authorizing fees.03/13/2025unclassifiedunchanged535.080
Relating to the Social Work Licensure Compact; authorizing fees.03/24/2025unclassifiedunchanged524.080
Elections.10/01/2025unclassifiedunchanged333.080
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.03/24/2025unclassifiedunchanged524.080
Relating to the relocation or removal of dredged spoils or materials by a navigation district.05/19/2025unclassifiedunchanged468.080
Proposing a constitutional amendment specifying the authority of the attorney general to prosecute a criminal offense prescribed by the election laws of this state.03/24/2025unclassifiedunchanged524.080
Enacts the "wireless broadband eligible facility permitting act" to provide for uniform regulation of certain wireless facilities.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the New York State social housing development authority as a public benefit corporation to increase the supply of permanently affordable housing in the state through the acquisition of land and renovation or rehabilitation of existing real property, and through the construction of new, permanently affordable housing.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.05/23/2025unclassifiedunchanged464.080
Relating to the name, rights, powers, and privileges of the Cedar Port Navigation and Improvement District.05/19/2025unclassifiedunchanged468.080
Establishes requirements for the creation and operation of limited purpose trust companies; establishes how to apply to operate as a limited purpose trust company.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes a cause of action for fertility fraud; allows patients who have undergone assisted reproduction procedures to bring a cause of action if human reproductive material other than that which was consented to by the patient is used in such procedure; allows for compensatory and punitive damages.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
In memory of William A. Lawson of Houston.03/04/2025unclassifiedunchanged544.080
Requires appointing authorities to provide appointment and promotion letters when extending an offer of appointment or promotion to a position in the classified service.06/11/2025unclassifiedunchanged445.080
Relating to a school district student's reentry into a regular educational environment from an alternative education program, including parental rights related to that reentry.03/25/2025unclassifiedunchanged523.080
Relating to the production and ownership of brine.03/19/2025unclassifiedunchanged529.080
Designating the fourth Thursday of March as Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day for a 10-year period ending in 2035.05/28/2025unclassifiedunchanged459.080
Requires immediate notification of a child's parent when an allegation of child abuse in an educational setting has been made regarding such child.03/19/2026unclassifiedunchanged164.080
Relating to the accommodation of pedestrians, bicyclists, persons with disabilities, children, senior citizens, users of public transportation, movers of commercial goods, and motorists on streets and highways.03/13/2025unclassifiedunchanged535.080
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
Recognizing March 4, 2025, as Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Day.03/04/2025unclassifiedunchanged544.080
Establishes a penalty of not less than $1,000 for each intentional destruction, mutilation or significant alteration of a medical record by a party to a medical malpractice action, or by any officer, director, member, employee or agent of such party; establishes a cause of action on behalf of any person injured as the result of such destruction, mutilation or significant alteration; requires disclosure of metadata, audit trail, and log-in information associated with electronic medical records in certain actions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Creates the district long-term care ombudsperson council program to coordinate volunteer ombudsperson's in each assembly district.03/23/2026unclassifiedunchanged160.080
Relating to requiring a school district or open-enrollment charter school to report data regarding certain disciplinary or law enforcement actions taken against students.03/24/2025unclassifiedunchanged524.080
Requires original manufacturers of agricultural equipment to make certain documentation, parts, and tools required for the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of agricultural equipment available, on fair and reasonable terms, to independent repair providers and owners of agricultural equipment manufactured and sold on or after July 1, 2015.04/28/2026unclassifiedunchanged124.080
Relating to the collection and reporting of data regarding race and ethnicity by the Texas Education Agency.03/25/2025unclassifiedunchanged523.080
Relating to public higher education.05/27/2025unclassifiedunchanged460.080
Extends the time period for tenancy rights from 30 days to 90 days of possession; requires the adjudication of certain recovery proceedings to occur within 30 days of the filing of the petition.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to patients' rights, consumer protection, and directives for the provision of health care services; providing an administrative penalty.03/25/2025unclassifiedunchanged523.080
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 2025, as Women's History Month in the State of New York, recognizing the invaluable contributions of women in all aspects of society03/04/2025unclassifiedunchanged544.080
Relates to incarcerated individual interviews by the state board of parole; requires such parole board interviews of incarcerated individuals to be conducted in person and in the correctional facility where such incarcerated individual is housed.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Creates a civil cause of action for the manufacture, sale, or distribution of assault weapons or ghost guns within the state; aiding and abetting such manufacture, sale or distribution; or intending to aid and abet in such manufacture, sale or distribution; provides for a civil remedy of ten thousand dollars per violation.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes a certificate of restoration to replace the terms "certificate of good conduct" and "certificate of relief from disabilities"; repeals certain provisions relating to certificates of good conduct.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Congratulating the 2025 New York State Senate Historical Women of Distinction03/04/2025unclassifiedunchanged544.080
Relating to a private civil cause of action against a public school for the violation of certain student or parental rights.03/25/2025unclassifiedunchanged523.080
Establishes a statewide person-centered mental health services work group to improve statewide mental health planning and outcomes to achieve a person-centered, prevention-first integrated and tiered system of care for holistic health and wellness.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the emergency possession of certain abandoned children by designated emergency infant care providers and the termination of parental rights to those children.03/26/2025unclassifiedunchanged522.080