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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
Relating to the administration of a retirement health care plan for firefighters and police officers in certain municipalities.05/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged458.080
Establishes a bicycle and electric scooter operator's safety manual; provides for the issuance of a license for residents who successfully read and comprehend the operator's safety manual; requires residents who operate an electric scooter in New York City to have a license to operate such devices; requires instruction in electric scooter safety as part of the drivers pre-licensing course; requires liability insurance for electric scooters in cities having a population of one million or more; prohibits the sale of an electric scooter to a purchaser unless the purchaser has a license to operate the electric scooter and has insurance in a city having a population of one million or more.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes authority for early childcare savings accounts to provide tax benefits for savings for qualified childcare services; provides for the functions and powers of the comptroller; provides for the program requirements and limitations.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the "New York public banking act"; authorizes municipal and other local governments to form and control public banks through the ownership of capital stock or other ownership interests, and to loan or grant public funds or lend public credit to such public banks for the public purposes of achieving cost savings, strengthening local economies, supporting community economic development, and addressing infrastructure and housing needs for localities.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the integrity in government act; expands the powers and duties of the committee on open government.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the rights and liabilities of the owner of the surface estate of the tract of land on which a well to be plugged or replugged by the Railroad Commission of Texas is located.06/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged436.080
In memory of Abel "Billy" Martinez of Lubbock.03/31/2025unclassifiedunchanged517.080
Relating to renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.04/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged503.080
Limits who may bring a private right of action for identifying a victim of a sex offense; only brought by the victim where the information has not otherwise been publicly disclosed.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to adopting the Appalachian states radioactive waste compact; assures interstate cooperation for the proper management and disposal of low-level radioactive wastes to reduce the volume of low-level radioactive waste.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Honoring Dr. Andrise Bass upon the occasion of her designation for special recognition at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Visionary Awards Gala on March 9, 202503/03/2025unclassifiedunchanged545.080
Honoring Hafza Girdap upon the occasion of her designation for special recognition at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Visionary Awards Gala on March 9, 202503/03/2025unclassifiedunchanged545.080
Promotes understanding, awareness and enforcement of animal crime laws.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits employers from asking job applicants about salary expectations; allows job applicants to request the included benefits for the position they are applying for.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to certain disclosures and other requirements and prohibited conduct relating to the sale of tickets for concerts and other events.04/23/2025unclassifiedunchanged494.080
Enacts the "sustainable affordable housing and sprawl prevention act"; exempts or limits environmental review under SEQR for the construction of certain new residential units to avoid creating unnecessary housing sprawl; limits certain rights to action under SEQR; makes related provisions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Includes sporting events within the definition of places of public entertainment and amusement for purposes of wrongful refusal of admission to and ejection from places of public entertainment and amusement.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the crime of aggravated harassment by means of electronic or digital communication; provides for a private right of action for the unlawful dissemination or publication of deep fakes, which are digitized images which are altered to incorporate a person's face or their identifiable body part onto an image and such image depicts a pornographic or lewd sex act or graphic violence.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Withdraws Orange county from the metropolitan commuter transportation district.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to certain disclosures and other requirements and prohibited conduct relating to the sale of tickets for concerts and other events.03/13/2025unclassifiedunchanged535.080
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the attorney general to prosecute a criminal offense committed by a peace officer acting in the course and scope of the officer's official duties.03/26/2025unclassifiedunchanged522.080
Authorizes the granting of retirement service credit in the optional twenty year retirement plan to Duane A. Palma for service as a correction officer at the Monroe county sheriff's office jail bureau.11/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged282.080
Relating to the adoption of the revised Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children by the State of Texas; making conforming changes.03/13/2025unclassifiedunchanged535.080
Authorizes the county of Suffolk and the village of Nissequogue, in the county of Suffolk, to offer the 20-year retirement option to Bridget Topping, a police officer employed by such county and village.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to local control of the employment matters of sheriff's department employees in certain counties.05/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged466.080
Relative to Transgender Day of Visibility.03/24/2025unclassifiedunchanged524.080
Classified workers’ rights.07/10/2025unclassifiedunchanged416.080
Mourning the death of Hazel N. Dukes, longtime civil rights stalwart and distinguished member of her community03/04/2025unclassifiedunchanged544.080
Relating to the regulation of certain political communications, a prohibition on electioneering by school district and open-enrollment charter school officials and employees, and actions and other proceedings by a public school challenging the operations of the public school system; authorizing an administrative penalty; creating a criminal offense.03/25/2025unclassifiedunchanged523.080
Extends the benefits of the variable supplements fund to all New York city police officers, firefighters, housing police, transit police, correction officers and registered domestic partners.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to protecting the rights of current and converted Mitchell-Lama residents.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the interstate medical licensure compact; provides a streamlined process that allows physicians to become licensed in multiple participating states, thereby enhancing the portability of a medical license and ensuring the safety of patients.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to requiring municipalities, authorities and agencies to obtain liability insurance on each duly appointed police officer in an amount not less than $200,000.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires that the entire amount of a rental deposit or advance be refundable to the tenant upon the tenant's vacating of the premises except for an amount lawfully retained for non-payment of rent or utilities, damage caused by the tenant, or storage costs; requires landlord to provide an itemized statement of damages and to return the balance of the deposit within 14 days; requires that tenant be given the opportunity to inspect the rental premises prior to signing a lease; allows a grantee or assignee of the leased premises to demand that an escrow account be opened.04/30/2025unclassifiedunchanged487.080
Provides that if any employee, engaged in the service of any commuter rail service owned or operated by the authority or its subsidiaries, shall suffer a physical and/or mental injury that is caused by a passenger, customer or member of the public while the employee is performing an assigned duty, the employer shall be held liable for any health care costs attributable to such injury; makes related provisions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Creates the office of the correctional ombudsperson to achieve transparency, fairness, impartiality and accountability in New York state correctional facilities; relates to reports by coroners; designates investigators of the office of the correctional ombudsperson as peace officers; authorizes the attorney general to investigate the alleged commission of any criminal offense committed by an employee of the department of corrections and community supervision in connection with their official duties; relates to the confidentiality of certain records; includes the office of the correctional ombudsperson records within the definition of public safety agency records; makes related provisions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides that no person 62 years of age or older shall be denied occupancy in multiple dwellings, nor shall such tenant be evicted from a multiple dwelling on the sole ground that such person owns or keeps a common household pet or pets, the harboring of which is not prohibited by the multiple dwelling law or other applicable law, unless the pet causes damage to the subject premises, creates a nuisance or interferes substantially with the health, safety or welfare of other tenants or occupants of the same or adjacent building or structure.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Includes temporarily erected structures in the definition of "substandard or insanitary area".01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the "county of Westchester public works investment act" which allows the Westchester county department of public works and the Westchester county department of transportation to utilize design-build project delivery.06/13/2025unclassifiedunchanged443.080
Mourning the death of Dr. Hazel N. Dukes, distinguished citizen and devoted member of her community03/04/2025unclassifiedunchanged544.080
Recognizing March 18, 2025, as Omega Psi Phi Day at the State Capitol.03/18/2025unclassifiedunchanged530.080
Relates to the use in evidence of the fact of possession or presence on the premises of condoms and other sexual and reproductive health devices.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the bank of Rochester, including provisions related to definitions; sponsors and corporate structure; powers and restrictions; governance; charter requirements; financial and operations frameworks; transparency and financial reporting; insurance; deposits; policy mandates; ethics and financial disclosure; inconsistency with other laws; and owners not to be considered bank holding companies.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of digital electronic equipment.03/25/2025unclassifiedunchanged523.080
Relating to the training of prospective grand jurors and to grand jury proceedings.05/28/2025unclassifiedunchanged459.080
Relates to voting rights expansion, voter registration on election day, expansion of the use of and requirements for absentee voting, creation of a real-time state wide voter registration database, special ballots for election employees, and voter affidavits.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes a continuing care retirement community bill of rights; requires the commissioner of health to designate a county ombudsperson to monitor such bill of rights.03/04/2025unclassifiedunchanged544.080
Relating to funding of excess losses and operating expenses of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association; authorizing an assessment; authorizing a surcharge.06/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged436.080
Authorizes the institution of a suit in any court of competent jurisdiction alleging a violation of the human rights law for a period of three years after the dismissal of a complaint for administrative convenience by the division of human rights.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Creates the New York Civil Gideon Act.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080