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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
Adds to the list of duties of the OCFS office of the ombudsperson relating to hearing grievances and complaints.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides a period of probable usefulness for the acquisition, construction or reconstruction of or addition to a solar array or solar panel system, whether or not including buildings, land or rights in land, original furnishings, equipment, machinery or apparatus, or the replacement of such equipment, machinery or apparatus.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Prohibits discrimination against vaccinated persons.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Permits the parole board to extend the time for reconsideration of parole for violent felony offenders to forty-eight months from a negative determination.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Recognizing the Greater Dallas Section of the National Council of Jewish Women for their 112 years of service.04/09/2025unclassifiedunchanged508.080
Extends a term estate; makes certain other changes relating to property known as Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds in the borough of Staten Island, city of New York until September 30, 2122.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to benefits for police officers, correction officers, firefighters, and other emergency personnel diagnosed with PTSD by making their injury compensable if it cannot be shown, by a preponderance of evidence, that the PTSD was caused by factors unrelated to their occupation.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Congratulating labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta on her 95th birthday.06/01/2025unclassifiedunchanged455.080
Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month.07/03/2025unclassifiedunchanged423.080
Mourning the death of Walter Simpkins, transformative leader, distinguished citizen and pillar of his community04/08/2025unclassifiedunchanged509.080
Commemorating the observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day in the State of New York on April 23, 202504/08/2025unclassifiedunchanged509.080
Requires certain public authorities to establish a cashless tolling amnesty program between August first, two thousand twenty-five and December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-five for cashless tolls collected between April twenty-third, two thousand sixteen and June twenty-ninth, two thousand twenty-five.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Ends involuntary servitude in state and local correctional facilities in New York state.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to the representation of newly formed political parties; relates to the placement of candidates of newly formed political parties on ballots, the representation of such parties within the state and the transmission of the official canvass of votes cast for presidential electors.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts provisions providing protection to employees from retaliatory actions by employers where such employees report improper business activities; applicable to employees who in good faith reasonably believe that an improper business activity has or will occur, based on information that the employees reasonably believe to be true; provides remedies and relief.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
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.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes certain consumer rights for the protection of consumer health, safety and/or privacy needs related to utility meters.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Creates a $1,500 wage tax credit for employers who employ New York national guard members, reservists, volunteer firefighters and EMS personnel.09/08/2025unclassifiedunchanged356.080
Relates to civil actions for deprivation of constitutional rights; provides that a peace officer employed by a local government, who under color of law, subjects or causes to be subjected, including failing to intervene, any other person to the deprivation of any individual rights that create binding obligations on government actors secured by the bill of rights, article one of the state constitution, is liable to the injured party for legal or equitable relief or any other appropriate relief; provides that statutory immunities and statutory limitations on liability, damages or attorney fees shall not apply; governmental immunity shall not be a defense to liability; and qualified immunity shall not be a defense to liability.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to restrictions on consecutive hours of work for nurses; provides circumstances for the reinstatement of limitations on mandatory overtime; provides for civil penalties for employers who violate work hours limitations.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to establish design standards for greenway trails and to manage applications for greenway trails.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 6-12, 2025, as Crime Victims' Rights Week in the State of New York04/09/2025unclassifiedunchanged508.080
Establishes the division of the crime victims' statewide advocate to represent crime victims' and witnesses' legal interests during discovery and trial and assist with victim compensation applications.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the creation of the Craver Ranch Municipal Management District No. 1; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments and fees; granting a limited power of eminent domain.05/12/2025unclassifiedunchanged475.080
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 impose a tax and issue bonds.06/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged436.080
Relating to the name and powers of the Sabine Pass Port Authority; altering the terms of the authority's port commission; altering the authority to issue bonds.05/22/2025unclassifiedunchanged465.080
Permits surviving spouses of NYC police pension fund members to retain accidental death benefits upon remarriage.12/18/2025unclassifiedunchanged255.080
Relating to the composition of the board of directors and the powers of the Presidio County Underground Water Conservation District.05/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged458.080
Relative to Harvey Milk Day.05/19/2025unclassifiedunchanged468.080
Prohibits discriminatory practices by real estate appraisers; furthers fair housing compliance.04/30/2025unclassifiedunchanged487.080
Provides for the appointment of a monitor team to oversee the Wyandanch union free school district on the academic, fiscal and operational status of such school district; extends such provisions of law five years from June 30, 2025 until June 30, 2030.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Sets up rules and regulations for the operation of lease-hold retirement communities located in a county with a population of more than one million inhabitants that only borders one other county, to provide adequate housing for senior citizens wishing to retire and locate in a lease-hold retirement community; grants owners of homes in lease-hold retirement communities the right to sell their homes by methods common to sales of residential property; requires that owners of lease-hold retirement communities offer owners of homes the option to sign a long-term ninety-nine year lease.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the low impact landscaping rights act, preventing homeowners' associations from adopting or enforcing any rules or regulations that would effectively prohibit, or impose unreasonable limitations on, the installation or maintenance of low impact landscaping.06/11/2025unclassifiedunchanged445.080
Provides for restructuring unsustainable sovereign and subnational debt; provides a voluntary petition for relief may be filed with the state.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides for a limited alternative remedy to remove unauthorized persons from residential real property if certain conditions are met.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Removes the exclusion of part-time employees from certain definitions relating to employment and expanding the definition of employer; removes certain exclusions for employer notice requirements for the closing of a facility; removes the discretionary reduction of penalties for employers for certain acts or omissions concerning notice requirements for mass layoffs, relocations or employment loss; removes the maximum time period for determining back pay and other liabilities for certain employees who experience employment loss; allows the attorney general to take certain action to assist certain employees in receiving back pay and other liabilities; requires employers to pay severance to employees when there is a plant closing, relocation, or mass layoff.02/24/2026unclassifiedunchanged187.080
Authorizes the state university of New York at Farmingdale to lease 9.26 acres of underutilized lands to the Farmingdale state development corporation for the purpose of multi-purpose facilities to support housing needs and supporting amenities.04/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged488.080
Prohibits the disclosure of individualized fare payment data by the metropolitan commuter transportation authority and the New York city transit authority for the purpose of maintaining customer privacy; provides certain exceptions when such data can be disclosed.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires cooperative housing corporations provide a prospective purchaser with a written statement of reasons when withholding consent to a purchase; voids any agreement inconsistent with such requirement.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to unlawful strikes by public employees; provides for the settlement of certain disputes relating to terms and conditions of employment of certain transit and transportation authorities.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Authorizes the county of Tompkins to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Bryan Jolly, a deputy sheriff employed by such county upon such officer's election to participate in such plan.06/13/2025unclassifiedunchanged443.080
Provides for accessing records under the freedom of information law including notification procedures and the release of names of natural persons and residential addresses.03/23/2026unclassifiedunchanged160.080
Relates to creating the "modernized voter registration act of New York"; modernizes voter registration; promotes access to voting for individuals with disabilities; protects the ability of individuals to exercise the right to vote in elections for local and state office and makes an appropriation therefor.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Authorizes the participation by free association libraries in the New York state and local employees' retirement system.02/19/2026unclassifiedunchanged192.080
Directs the department of environmental conservation to conduct a study on retrofitting certain schools located within 500 feet of a major highway.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Allows individuals detained in any correctional or local correctional facility to vote at polling places located within the facility if they are registered to vote and are otherwise eligible; provides for polling places within correctional facilities; provides for automatic changes in voter status; includes bi-partisan boards of elections officials and inspectors as persons who may visit correctional facilities.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to enacting the central air conditioner and heat pump rights act; provides that a homeowners' association may not adopt or enforce any rules or regulations that would effectively prohibit, or impose unreasonable limitations on, the installation or use of a central air conditioner or heat pump.12/08/2025unclassifiedunchanged265.080
Ends involuntary servitude in state and local correctional facilities in New York state.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides that the New York labor law shall be construed liberally for the accomplishment of its remedial purposes.06/13/2025unclassifiedunchanged443.080
Relating to the election of directors for and the authority to issue bonds of the Johnson County Special Utility District.06/22/2025unclassifiedunchanged434.080