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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 creation of the office of independent oversight ombudsman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.04/07/2025unclassifiedunchanged510.080
Relating to certain best management practices and to certain requirements for the design, construction, and operation of certain wind and solar power facilities in this state.04/07/2025unclassifiedunchanged510.080
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of a person's caste in opportunities of employment, housing, and access to public accommodations.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes a housing succession rights task force to conduct a state-wide assessment of succession rights in rent stabilized, public housing and city or municipal owned buildings.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to residential programs for children and the rights such children have when under such care.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Recognizing March 18, 2025, as Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Day.03/17/2025unclassifiedunchanged531.080
Commemorating the 62nd anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Gideon v. Wainwright.04/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged496.080
Establishes a Green New Deal for New York task force; requires such task force to develop a detailed statewide, industrial, economic mobilization plan for the transition of the New York economy to become greenhouse gas emissions neutral by 2030 and to significantly draw down greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and oceans and to promote economic and environmental justice and equality.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits the use of cell-site simulators by law enforcement officers; provides a right of action for violations of such prohibition.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Recognizing March 19, 2025, as African Methodist Episcopal Day at the State Capitol.03/19/2025unclassifiedunchanged529.080
Congratulating Tiara Cooper on her receipt of a 2025 Outstanding Texan Award from the Texas Legislative Black Caucus.04/01/2025unclassifiedunchanged516.080
Relating to the powers and duties of the Far North Fort Worth Municipal Utility District No. 1 of Tarrant and Wise Counties; providing authority to establish defined areas and to impose a tax and issue bonds.05/28/2025unclassifiedunchanged459.080
Relates to employee petitions to participate in a shared work program and to employer responses to such petitions; requires such petitions to be submitted to the commissioner of labor and to be made available for public access on the department of labor website.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Health.10/01/2025unclassifiedunchanged333.080
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Day.05/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged473.080
Women in Law Month04/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged488.080
Relates to authorizing geographic pay differentials for certain police officers; authorizes a pay differential for regional state park police, forest ranger, environmental conservation officer, and university police officer titles when wage rates of police officers in a given location are substantially higher than the wage rates paid by the state.04/21/2026unclassifiedunchanged131.080
Enacts the "New York land-home property act"; relates to manufactured homes certificate of title and the conveyance and encumbrance of manufactured homes as real property.03/26/2025unclassifiedunchanged522.080
Establishes a correctional employee protective labor practices board to make recommendations regarding labor practices and working conditions for correctional employees, and institutional safety of both correctional employees and incarcerated individuals.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Honoring Cliff Albright for his efforts to encourage voter participation and civic engagement.04/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged496.080
Requires that a claimant alleging that the contents of a website or mobile application that describes goods and services provided at a place of public accommodation constitutes an unlawful discriminatory practice against visually and hearing impaired individuals serve written notice on the owner and provide 60 days to cure the alleged violation prior to commencing an action.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides for standardbred equine drug testing standards by permitting the New York state gaming commission to participate in the interstate compact on anti-doping and drug testing standards.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides additional requirements for approval of charter school applications; applies additional prohibitions to charter schools; requires certain financial disclosures by charter schools; requires charter schools to comply with provisions relating to construction, repair or demolition of school facilities; relates to admission of students.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the "Gold Star Families Support Act"; provides a member of a Gold Star family with state paid health insurance; removes provisions relating to veterans with disabilities; expands employment of veterans to employment of veterans and members of a Gold Star family; establishes the Gold Star family tuition fund to be distributed to any public or private educational institution from grades pre-K through graduate and post-graduate school shall be deposited with any school providing free tuition to a member of a Gold Star family; makes related provisions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of a person's caste in opportunities of employment, housing, and access to public accommodations.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits or limits certain tax exemptions for real property in instances where a pattern or practice of discrimination against occupants has been found based on such occupants' lawful source of income.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Authorizes the town of Copake to establish community preservation funds and to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited into the community preservation fund; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof.11/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged282.080
Requires all withdrawal transactions made through a service provided by a mobile sports wagering licensee to be irreversible by the withdrawing consumer, the licensee or another at the consumer's request.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires section 8 voucher holders to be provided notice of their legal protections from source of income discrimination; requires online housing platforms operating in the state to display notices of rights against source of income discrimination; makes related provisions; provides for penalties for violations.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the safe housing transfer for domestic violence victims act; ensuring safe housing transfers for domestic violence victims in private and public housing.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires employment and consumer dispute arbitrations to be submitted to neutral third party arbitrators; establishes prohibited arbitration agreements and provisions; requires disclosure of information by certain arbitrators.05/19/2026unclassifiedunchanged103.080
Requires every entity responsible for the broadcast rights of a sports team which is part of a national or international professional sports league to ensure that every publicly broadcast game played by such sports team which is played in a facility that is benefitting or has benefitted from state funds, tax subsidies, eminent domain, or another valuable benefit that was made at a cost to the state, shall be made available to view at no cost within the county such facility is situated in and its adjoining counties.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to requiring a medical facility or related service to obtain express prior written consent before filming and/or broadcasting of visual images of a patient's medical treatment.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Defines certain collective bargaining rights for farm laborers.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires that no homeless shelter shall be located within five hundred feet of a transit facility or within a building that has a rent-controlled or rent-stabilized dwelling unit.05/21/2026unclassifiedunchanged101.080
Imposes civil penalties; provides a private cause of action against entities knowingly encouraging a gambling addiction.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the "Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for all act"; requires a setting which allows a social media user to turn off algorithmic recommendations and other notifications; prohibits the use of dark patterns to subvert choice or inhibit users from accessing certain mechanisms.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the minimum period of time that forensic samples should be retained by investigating authorities; creates the state commission for the integrity of the criminal justice system, as an independent agency, and provides for such commission's powers and duties; relates to special fictitious name indictments; relates to requests for certain DNA test comparisons; relates to forensic DNA testing; relates to claims for unjust conviction and imprisonment; relates to DNA testing, data collection and record keeping; relates to DNA testing in felony cases.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
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, 2013.11/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged282.080
In memory of the Honorable James Earl Carter Jr., 39th president of the United States.04/01/2025unclassifiedunchanged516.080
Committee on Judiciary: judiciary omnibus.10/01/2025unclassifiedunchanged333.080
Relates to establishing commercial rent regulation; establishes a right to renew leases and authorizes the rent guidelines board to establish maximum rents.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes certain rights and remedies for employees who are wrongfully discharged; establishes remedies for wrongful discharge; allows an employee or employer to make a written offer to arbitrate a dispute covered under this act; defines terms.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Recognizing March 16, 2025, as Black Press Day03/19/2025unclassifiedunchanged529.080
Relates to conversions of real property in public housing developments in relation to the RAD program; sets notice requirements for public housing authorities.05/11/2026unclassifiedunchanged111.080
Relates to alternative project delivery contracts for certain construction projects by housing authorities.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to implementation of sexual harassment prevention and response policies and procedures by colleges and universities.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Preserves the right to a jury trial for actions commenced pursuant to a human rights law that include a demand for equitable relief.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Authorizes the town of Copake to establish community preservation funds and to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited into the community preservation fund; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof.06/12/2025unclassifiedunchanged444.080
Requires diaper changing accommodations be made available to all persons regardless of gender in certain buildings.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080