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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
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.04/17/2025unclassifiedunchanged500.080
Authorizes the South Nassau Water Authority and the North Shore Water Authority to remain eligible for funding in state fiscal year two thousand twenty-six--two thousand twenty-seven.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the creation of the Colmena Ranch Municipal Management District No. 1; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments and fees.06/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged436.080
Commending Reverend Dr. Frankco J. Harris upon the occasion of his 7th Pastoral Anniversary04/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged488.080
Establishes the nail salon minimum standards council act; establishes the nail salon minimum standards council which shall investigate wages and standards within the nail salon industry and submit recommendations on minimum wages, regulations and standards for nail salon workers.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the schedules that work act to provide for a timely, good faith interactive process between employees and employers that includes a discussion of potential schedule changes to meet an employee's needs.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes the city of Dunkirk interim finance authority; provides for its functions, powers and duties; repeals the city of Dunkirk fiscal recovery act.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires the Olympic regional development authority, in consultation with the department of environmental conservation and division of human rights to develop an anti-bias and inclusion training to be completed by employees of such agencies annually.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 24, 2025 as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day in the State of New York04/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged488.080
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to recognize April 20, 2025, in honor of the 248th Anniversary of the adoption of the first New York State Constitution04/29/2025unclassifiedunchanged488.080
Relating to the powers and duties and validating certain acts and proceedings of the Cole Ranch Improvement District No. 1 of Denton County, Texas.06/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged436.080
Ensures free speech on all college and university campuses within the state; creates a cause of action for those who have their freedom of speech infringed upon by a college or university.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the powers and duties and validating certain acts and proceedings of the Hunter Ranch Improvement District No. 1 of Denton County, Texas.06/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged436.080
Relating to the creation of the Cedar Springs Improvement District; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.05/19/2025unclassifiedunchanged468.080
Relating to the powers, duties, and governance of the Starr County Drainage District, changing the name of the Starr County Drainage District to the Starr County Drainage and Groundwater Conservation District, and the dissolution and transfer of the Starr County Groundwater Conservation District to the Starr County Drainage and Groundwater Conservation District; authorizing the imposition of a tax.05/14/2025unclassifiedunchanged473.080
Relating to the creation of the Alluvium Ranch 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.05/19/2025unclassifiedunchanged468.080
Requires the administration for children's services and New York city public school employees provide a verbal and written warning to students of such student's right to refuse an interview and right to have a supportive adult during the interview.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires landlords of certain properties to furnish New York homes and community renewal with data pertaining to succession rights.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Congratulating fifth grader Sophia Varela of Franklin Elementary School in San Antonio on being selected to interview civil rights icon Sylvia Mendez.05/23/2025unclassifiedunchanged464.080
Relating to the creation of the Alluvium Ranch 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 for securities fraud whistleblower incentives and protections; defines terms; grants whistleblower awards for one or more whistleblowers who voluntarily provide original information to the attorney general that was the basis for a successful covered enforcement action; protects whistleblowers from retaliation; authorizes the attorney general to adopt any necessary rules and regulations; makes related provisions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires sexual and domestic violence awareness posters in cosmetology establishments.05/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged109.080
Enacts the safe subways act creating a subway safety command force responsible for coordinating public safety, homelessness intervention services, the orderly flow of riders in and out of the subway system, compliance with fare collection, and the cosmetic appearance of subway trains and stations.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
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.05/12/2026unclassifiedunchanged110.080
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
Establishes a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender veterans coordinator in order to support the unique needs of, advocate for, and celebrate the service of such veterans.02/25/2026unclassifiedunchanged186.080
Establishes the city of Dunkirk interim finance authority; provides for its functions, powers and duties; repeals the city of Dunkirk fiscal recovery act.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relative to Harvey Milk Day.05/19/2025unclassifiedunchanged468.080
Relative to Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month.05/12/2025unclassifiedunchanged475.080
Requires the provision of paid family leave and certain other employee benefits when an employee is under a mandatory or precautionary order of medically-necessary quarantine or isolation issued by the department of health.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides that municipal broadband service companies are authorized to provide broadband service to tenants in multi-family housing; provides that landlords shall not interfere with the installation of such service, demand or accept payment for allowing the service on the property, or discriminate in rental charges between tenants who receive broadband service and those that don't.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes an automatic application program for state high school students into SUNY and CUNY.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the creation of the Montgomery County Management District No. 3; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.06/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged436.080
Directs the state university trustees, without any public bidding, to lease and otherwise contract to make a portion of the lands of SUNY Stony Brook on its campus to the Stony Brook Housing Development Corp. for the purpose of building undergraduate student, graduate student, faculty and staff housing; limits such lease to a period not exceeding 100 years.09/17/2025unclassifiedunchanged347.080
Regulates automated decision-making by government agencies; requires agencies to conduct impact assessments; requires disclosure of automated decision-making tools utilized by governmental agencies.12/19/2025unclassifiedunchanged254.080
Recognizing April 23, 2025, as Legal Defense Fund Advocacy Day.05/24/2025unclassifiedunchanged463.080
Allows access to sealed and protected records to civilian law enforcement oversight entities conducting investigations and disciplinary proceedings for misconduct by police and peace officers.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relating to the powers and duties and validating certain acts and proceedings of the Cole Ranch Improvement District No. 1 of Denton County, Texas.05/28/2025unclassifiedunchanged459.080
Relating to the powers and duties and validating certain acts and proceedings of the Hunter Ranch Improvement District No. 1 of Denton County, Texas.05/28/2025unclassifiedunchanged459.080
Relating to the preservation, maintenance, restoration, and protection of the Alamo complex and surrounding area by the Alamo Commission.06/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged436.080
Directs the state university trustees, without any public bidding, to lease and otherwise contract to make a portion of the lands of SUNY Stony Brook on its campus to the Stony Brook Housing Development Corp. for the purpose of building undergraduate student, graduate student, faculty and staff housing; limits such lease to a period not exceeding 100 years.06/06/2025unclassifiedunchanged450.080
Establishes the downstate New York power authority to own and operate electricity service and acquire the distribution facilities formerly owned by any downstate utility corporation.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Strengthens protections for patients regarding sexual misconduct by medical providers; requires medical expert consultants involved in investigations disclose conflicts of interest and to not be under investigation, on warning, or on probation; requires a zero-tolerance policy to be adopted and training to be provided on sexual misconduct by the board for professional misconduct; includes provisions related to the right to have a chaperone; includes sexual misconduct in the definition of professional misconduct.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Authorizes municipalities and the department of financial services to seek civil penalties for violations of the duty to maintain a foreclosed property in an amount of up to $500 per day for each day such violation persists after the judgement of foreclosure has been issued.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relates to the terms and conditions of employment for members of the collective negotiating unit consisting of troopers in the division of state police and salary schedules for members of such unit; relates to the employee benefit fund for members of such unit; provides for the payment of overtime pursuant to the terms of any agreement (Part A); relates to the terms and conditions of employment for members of the collective negotiating unit consisting of commissioned and non-commissioned officers in the division of state police and salary schedules for members of such unit; relates to the employee benefit fund for members of such unit (Part B).05/20/2025unclassifiedunchanged467.080
Establishes a New York state veterans' and service member law book of a compilation of all state statutes governing the rights, privileges, benefits and services afforded to veterans, service members and their families.03/09/2026unclassifiedunchanged174.080
Establishes a bill of rights for family members and visitors of incarcerated individuals including the establishment of an independent office for visitation oversight to monitor implementation, receive complaints, and ensure compliance.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Congratulating Imari Reynolds for her service as a legislative aide in the office of State Representative Gene Wu during the 89th Legislative Session.05/24/2025unclassifiedunchanged463.080
Provides that certain purchase contracts to purchase food can be awarded to a qualified bidder who fulfills certain values based procurement standards when such bid is not more than 10% higher than the lowest responsible bidder and when the bidder makes publicly available data on where such bidder sources their food items; sets forth the criteria for values based procurement standards to include local economies, environmental resilience, racial equity, valued workforce, valued agricultural sector, animal welfare, and nutrition.06/17/2025unclassifiedunchanged439.080
Relating to the creation of the Wolf Creek 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.05/21/2025unclassifiedunchanged466.080