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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
Relates to the suspension of a health club contract; allows a buyer to suspend payment for services until access to a facility or premises has been restored or the right to a credit for dues and fees paid.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to advisory bodies for the Department of Family and Protective Services, including the creation of the child protective investigations advisory committee and the abolition of the Family and Protective Services Council.06/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged436.080
Relating to the regulation and use of artificial intelligence systems and the management of data by governmental entities.06/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged436.080
In memory of former state Senator and Representative Joe J. Bernal of San Antonio.06/01/2025unclassifiedunchanged455.080
Relating to digital replication rights in the voice and visual likeness of individuals; providing private causes of action; authorizing a fee.05/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged466.080
Relating to the reporting of data relating to postsecondary education and workforce trends by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Texas Workforce Commission, to performance tier funding under the public junior college finance program, and to a biennial regional labor demand assessment by the coordinating board.04/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged503.080
Relating to the inclusion of an understanding of communist regimes and ideologies in the essential knowledge and skills for the social studies curriculum for certain public school students.06/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged436.080
Relating to the adoption of the revised Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children by the State of Texas; making conforming changes.04/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged488.080
Relating to the provision of financial assistance by the Texas Water Development Board for certain projects.05/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged467.080
Relating to the licensing and regulation of certain real estate professionals by the Texas Real Estate Commission.06/22/2025unclassifiedunchanged434.080
Recognizing the D.C. Statehood Compact and petitioning the Congress of the United States to admit Washington, D.C., into the Union.03/11/2025unclassifiedunchanged537.080
Relating to jury instructions regarding parole eligibility and the release on parole of certain inmates convicted of an offense committed when younger than 18 years of age; changing parole eligibility.05/08/2025unclassifiedunchanged479.080
Relating to public school accountability, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement and public school performance ratings under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability.05/27/2025unclassifiedunchanged460.080
Relating to the authority of a property owner to obtain an injunction restraining the collection of ad valorem taxes by a taxing unit if the taxing unit adopts a tax rate that exceeds the voter-approval tax rate and subsequently takes an action that constitutes a material deviation from the stated purpose of the tax increase.05/10/2025unclassifiedunchanged477.080
Relating to the licensing and regulation of certain real estate professionals by the Texas Real Estate Commission.05/08/2025unclassifiedunchanged479.080
Relating to the abolishment of the state lottery.05/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged458.080
Relating to choice of law and assignment or acquisition of claims and demands in connection with certificated and uncertificated securities.04/09/2025unclassifiedunchanged508.080
Relates to voting rights including voter protection, voter's bill of rights, illegal voter suppression and intimidation, vote dilution, and preclearance.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Clarifies that employment at any licensee under the cannabis law satisfies employment requirements for parole, probation or other state supervision unless the terms and conditions of said parole, probation, or state supervision explicitly prohibit such employment.02/25/2026unclassifiedunchanged186.080
Provides that members of a retirement system who retire from such system and later rejoin the retirement system are reinstated with the same rights, benefits and privileges they had prior to retirement.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to the justification for the use of force in a homicide by a peace officer or police officer.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires employers to provide an employee, attorney for the employee or a representative of a recognized or certified employee organization, the opportunity to review and copy the employee's personnel file; provides the employee must submit a written request for this right to be exercised and former employees have to make the request within three years of leaving employment.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the protection of whistleblowers, accountability in public and private sectors, and penalties for retaliatory actions.03/27/2025unclassifiedunchanged521.080
Enacts the childhood lead poisoning prevention and safe housing act to make enforcement of lead hazard control standards in the state of New York more certain and more effective; creates a loan fund to assist owners in complying with lead-safe requirements; provides for inspections and certification of inspectors and remediators; requires registration of affected properties; provides tax credits for remediation; provides for appointment of deputy commissioner of housing and community renewal to oversee provisions; provides for educational programs relating to lead poisoning and abatement.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to procedures and grounds for termination of the parent-child relationship.03/17/2025unclassifiedunchanged531.080
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.03/17/2025unclassifiedunchanged531.080
Relating to the eligibility of land for appraisal for ad valorem tax purposes as qualified open-space land on the basis of its use for raising or keeping exotic animals.03/27/2025unclassifiedunchanged521.080
Requires the development of guidelines and procedures by the office of mental health to help avert retraumatization of victims of sexual offenses in a behavioral health outpatient setting.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to an exemption of the transfer of certain rights in water from certain disclosure requirements applicable to the transfer of certain interests in real property.05/10/2025unclassifiedunchanged477.080
Relating to renaming the Sunset Advisory Commission the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and to the duties of that department.03/27/2025unclassifiedunchanged521.080
Relates to strategic lawsuits against public participation; makes technical corrections; relates to the applicability of chapter 250 of the laws of 2020 amending the civil rights law relating to actions involving public petition and participation.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
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, 2015.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
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
Permits records required to be disclosed under the freedom of information law to have exempt parts of such documents be redacted before disclosure.12/05/2025unclassifiedunchanged268.080
Establishes the green 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
Establishes protections for the rights of pregnant students, parenting students, and students with pregnancy-related conditions in schools; requires schools to establish liaison officers for such students and to disseminate information relating to resources available to such students; directs that rules be established to administer such rights and to establish minimum periods of time for a leave of absence at the student's option.04/15/2026unclassifiedunchanged137.080
Requires Medicaid to cover gender-affirming care regardless of federal funding; prohibits discriminatory practices by health care entities including hospitals, certain professionals, and insurers; requires insurance coverage for services or treatments for gender dysphoria or gender incongruence.04/24/2026unclassifiedunchanged128.080
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 digital replication rights in the voice and visual likeness of individuals; providing private causes of action; authorizing a fee.03/27/2025unclassifiedunchanged521.080
Establishes October 7th as October 7th remembrance day to honor the victims of the October 7, 2023 attacks; declares October seventh as a holiday for students in the public schools of the city of New York; requires the chancellor of the New York city school district to provide instruction of awareness of the October seventh remembrance day to students and professional development training to teachers; requires the division of human rights to establish a statewide campaign for antisemitism prevention; makes related provisions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
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.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to certain distributions from deferred retirement option plans established under public retirement systems for police and firefighters in certain municipalities.03/27/2025unclassifiedunchanged521.080
Requires appointing authorities to provide appointment and promotion letters when extending an offer of appointment or promotion to a position in the classified service.12/19/2025unclassifiedunchanged254.080
Relating to certain deferred retirement option plan benefits under public retirement systems for police and firefighters in certain municipalities.03/27/2025unclassifiedunchanged521.080
Requires employers provide its employees paid leave and sets requirements for paid leave.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to the enforcement of liens on personal property at self-storage facilities; requires enforcement of a lien by public sale; requires a delay in enforcement of a lien if the tenant is a service member who is transferred or deployed on active duty or if the tenant is deceased; requires 60 days notice if the property subject to the lien is a motor vehicle or watercraft; requires a storage facility to hold certain surplus funds.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires hospitals to permit an interpreter to remain with a deaf, hard of hearing or nonverbal patient during admission to a hospital until appropriate hospital staff is assigned to interpret.05/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged466.080
Relating to conditions of employment for firefighters employed by certain political subdivisions.05/19/2025unclassifiedunchanged468.080
Establishes the "stop online predators act"; requires operators of covered platforms to conduct age verification to determine whether a user is a covered minor; requires operators of covered platforms to utilize certain default privacy settings for covered minors; requires operators of covered platforms to require parental approval of certain activity related to a covered minor's covered platform account.01/12/2026unclassifiedunchanged230.080
Relating to requiring certain employers to provide heat safety training and protections to employees; providing an administrative penalty.—unclassifiedunchanged—0