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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
Prohibits civil arrest in hospital, shelter, food bank, and crisis center settings; except to address an imminent safety situation or if they have an appropriate judicial warrant or judicial order.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the Educational Rights Transparency for New York Families Act, to establish standards for resource based educational rights of students within the state and implement a system of self-assessment and reporting by schools and school districts.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the commission to investigate foreign influence on governmental employees and elections.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Creates an affordable housing insurance relief fund program to provide grants to eligible projects for reasonable and necessary commercial insurance expenses.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Authorizes the county of Tompkins to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Kyle Davenport, a deputy sheriff employed by such county upon such officer's election to participate in such plan.06/13/2025unclassifiedunchanged443.080
Establishes a private cause of action for certain violations regarding machine-guns, assault weapons, disguised guns, ghost guns, and unfinished frames or receivers.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Dissolves the New York state thruway authority; transfers all functions, employees, records, authority, debts and obligations of such authority to the department of transportation.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Recognizing April 15, 2025, as Blue Ribbon Lobby Day.04/15/2025unclassifiedunchanged502.080
Authorizes David Edwards to receive certain service credit under a twenty-five year retirement plan offering one-sixtieths after twenty-five years of total creditable service for service with the Binghamton Fire Department.11/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged282.080
Authorizes the Onondaga county sheriff's department, in the county of Onondaga, to offer the optional twenty year retirement plan to deputy sheriffs Brittany E. Dorn, Noah C. Hunt, Daniel D. Lorenzini, Gordon J. Lopez, Tre C. Fesinger, and Christopher L. Van Dusen.06/11/2025unclassifiedunchanged445.080
Recognizing April 14, 2025, as Red and White Day.04/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged503.080
Relating to the creation of La Cima Municipal Management District No. 1; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes; granting a limited power of eminent domain.05/15/2025unclassifiedunchanged472.080
Provides that the New York labor law shall be construed liberally for the accomplishment of its remedial purposes.12/19/2025unclassifiedunchanged254.080
Authorizes Liliana Fernandez-Clemente, the widow of Daniel Clemente, to file a new service retirement application and option election form with the New York state and local employees' retirement system on behalf of such deceased member.03/24/2026unclassifiedunchanged159.080
In memory of Daniel Chris Graney of San Antonio.06/01/2025unclassifiedunchanged455.080
Relating to the composition of the board of directors and the powers of the Presidio County Underground Water Conservation District.05/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged466.080
Recognizing April 15, 2025, as Blue Ribbon Lobby Day at the State Capitol.04/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged503.080
Recognizing April 15, 2025, as Blue Ribbon Lobby Day at the State Capitol.05/23/2025unclassifiedunchanged464.080
Relating to the creation of certain municipal management districts; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes; granting a limited power of eminent domain.06/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged436.080
Relating to the creation of the Pura Vida Municipal Management District No. 1; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes; granting a limited power of eminent domain.06/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged436.080
Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of John Jay College of Criminal Justice04/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged488.080
Relating to the creation of the Rivers Market Place Municipal Management District; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes; granting a limited power of eminent domain.05/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged466.080
Directs the department of environmental conservation to conduct a study on retrofitting certain schools located within 500 feet of a major highway.03/10/2026unclassifiedunchanged173.080
Celebrating the life of John A. Feroleto04/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged488.080
Prohibits the state university of New York from contracting out to the ground lessee or any subsidiary of the ground lessee or the research foundation for the state university of New York for any services or privatize any services currently being performed by employees in the unclassified service at the state university of New York at Albany.06/06/2025unclassifiedunchanged450.080
Requires notice to be provided ninety days prior to commencement of a foreclosure action by a homeowners' association or condominium board to enforce a lien for unpaid common charges, assessments, fines or fees.06/06/2025unclassifiedunchanged450.080
Urging the Gulf Coast Protection District and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to not compromise navigation safety or two-way traffic vessel movement when implementing a project.05/12/2025unclassifiedunchanged475.080
Relating to the creation of the Bayou Belle Municipal Management District No. 1; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.06/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged436.080
Authorizes the Onondaga county sheriff's department, in the county of Onondaga, to offer the optional twenty year retirement plan to deputy sheriffs Brittany E. Dorn, Noah C. Hunt, Daniel D. Lorenzini, Gordon J. Lopez, Tre C. Fesinger, and Christopher L. Van Dusen.11/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged282.080
Requires counties and/or cities to establish a plan for providing legal counsel to persons who are defendants or respondents in eviction, ejectment and foreclosure proceedings and who are financially unable to obtain counsel; defines eligible person as one whose gross individual income is not in excess of one hundred twenty-five percent of the federal income official poverty line; requires the state to match dollar for dollar the amount counties appropriate for their plans.04/16/2025unclassifiedunchanged501.080
Relates to prohibiting contract provisions that waive certain substantive and procedural rights relating to a claim of discrimination, non-payment of wages or benefits, retaliation, harassment or violation of public policy in employment.04/16/2025unclassifiedunchanged501.080
Authorizes a plaintiff commencing an action alleging conduct constituting a sexual offense or a civil offense involving the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus shall have the right to proceed anonymously.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to participation by LGBT, disability and veteran-owned businesses in state contracts.04/16/2025unclassifiedunchanged501.080
Provides protection to employees and former employees from retaliatory actions by employers for the reporting of illegal or dangerous business activities.04/16/2025unclassifiedunchanged501.080
Eliminates late fees for residential utility customers; provides that no late payment charges may be imposed on residential customers.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Authorizes Olivia Rae Salta, the daughter of Dawn Jimenez-Salta, to file a new service retirement application and option election form with the New York state and local employees' retirement system on behalf of her deceased mother.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Mourning the death of former Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey, respected stateswoman, visionary leader and fearless advocate04/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged488.080
Permits surviving spouses of NYC police pension fund members to retain accidental death benefits upon remarriage.06/16/2025unclassifiedunchanged440.080
Relating to the creation of the Bluebonnet Hills Municipal Management District No. 1; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes; granting a limited power of eminent domain.06/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged436.080
Provides that possession of a condom or other reproductive or sexual health device may not be received in evidence in any trial, hearing or proceeding as evidence of conduct which would constitute an offense defined in article 230 of the penal law.04/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged488.080
Protects the rights of persons with disabilities to be accompanied by a guide dog or service dog in a place of public accommodation or housing accommodation; imposes a misdemeanor penalty for violations; requires the division of human rights to conduct a public awareness and education campaign.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Authorizes Scott Pavlick to receive certain service credit under a twenty-five year retirement plan offering one-sixtieths after twenty-five years of total creditable service for service with the Binghamton Fire Department.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to creating the Neighborhood Small Business Rent Increase Exemption; provides a tax abatement for limiting rent increases on small businesses in a city of one million or more persons.02/23/2026unclassifiedunchanged188.080
Strengthens protections against discrimination, harassment, and bullying based on actual or perceived immigration status, and to improve implementation and oversight under the Dignity for All Students Act.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires compliance with the uniform land use review procedure for the disposition of school property in New York city.04/16/2025unclassifiedunchanged501.080
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
Authorizes Kevin Burns to receive certain service credit under a twenty year retirement plan for service with the Binghamton Fire Department.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Authorizes two or more contiguous municipalities to create a broadband union district for the creation, administration, and maintenance of broadband infrastructure and services within such district; provides for governance, funding, powers, limitations, and related provisions for broadband union districts.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Recognizing May 2, 2025, as Urban League Advocates Day at the State Capitol.05/02/2025unclassifiedunchanged485.080
Criminalizes the harassment of a child when the perpetrator intentionally or knowingly harasses, annoys or alarms a child or a child's parent or guardian; establishes a private right of action for harassment of a child.06/04/2025unclassifiedunchanged452.080