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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.

Records
5,000
Last changed
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53 */4 * * * UTC
Coverage
12/02/2024–08/28/2026
Method
Methodology
RecordRecord DateVuga GroupChange StatusRecency DaysPublic Significance Score
Directs the department of financial services to periodically inspect residential real properties for which a lender has a duty to maintain; authorizes the department of financial services or the municipality to impose a $500 a day civil penalty for the failure of a lender to maintain an abandoned property that it has a duty to maintain; requires such lenders to register with the statewide vacant and abandoned property electronic registry.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes a right-to-repair for military property by requiring the adjutant general procure goods and services with fair and reasonable access to repair materials.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Relative to Transgender History Month.08/25/2025unclassifiedunchanged370.080
Intellectual Property Awareness Month.09/23/2025unclassifiedunchanged341.080
Relative to Direct Support Professional Recognition Week.09/04/2025unclassifiedunchanged360.080
Requires the department of environmental conservation and the department of health, owners or operators of public water systems, and owners or operators of buildings to take actions to prevent and control waterborne pathogens including legionella from source-to-tap.05/11/2026unclassifiedunchanged111.080
Requires veterinary clinics to file notice and documentation to the attorney general to determine if certain transactions would be against the public interest for veterinary care access prior to completing such transactions.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Directs the commissioner of transportation, in consultation with the New York state bridge authority, thruway authority, triborough bridge and tunnel authority, metropolitan transportation authority, and port authority of New York and New Jersey, shall conduct a statewide study and review of the tolling authorities' regulations and policies in relation to cashless tolling and tolls by mail collection (Part A); provides that no fine, fee or administrative charge for the late payment of a toll shall exceed ten per centum of the amount of such toll owed or be accessed within one hundred eighty days from the date of the incurred toll (Part B); requires the department of transportation, in consultation and cooperation with the New York state thruway authority, the New York state bridge authority, the metropolitan transportation authority, and the Port authority of New York and New Jersey, maintain a central website with the contact information for each authority's relevant toll payer advocate office and customer service center including phone numbers, email addresses and a website address or hyperlink for each authority's toll payer advocate help request form (Part C); establishes a cashless tolling amnesty program for certain public authorities (Part D).01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes criminal offenses related to cruelty to and the killing of animals; provides for enhanced sentencing and victim statements; requires landlords to check the animal abuser registry; establishes the New York state animal abuser registry; makes conforming changes; repeals provisions relating to aggravated cruelty to animals.05/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged109.080
Establishes and determines the composition of the committee on gubernatorial inability.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Provides for a moratorium on evictions during extreme weather conditions, and the 72-hour period following such conditions.04/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged145.080
Prohibits access to video and audio recordings from smart surveillance devices without a warrant; voids contractual provisions permitting such access.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires real estate brokers and online housing platforms using virtual agents and AI tools to conduct a disparate impact analysis to assess the actual impact of any such virtual agent; requires such individuals to submit a summary of the most recent disparate impact analysis to the attorney general's office; requires online housing platforms using virtual agents to provide an option to communicate with a human representative; makes certain provisions requiring anti-discriminatory measures for virtual agents and AI tools.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires the state to participate in the United Nations human rights council's universal periodic review by submitting a report in the capacity of a subnational stakeholder.04/29/2026unclassifiedunchanged123.080
Human Rights: Gaza.02/09/2026unclassifiedunchanged202.080
Establishes a right of action for the deprivation of constitutional rights; provides for compensatory damages, punitive damages, injunctive and declaratory relief, and reasonable attorney's fees.02/09/2026unclassifiedunchanged202.080
Provides that every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of the United States, subjects or causes to be subjected any citizen of New York or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the federal or state constitution shall be liable to the injured party in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding.09/12/2025unclassifiedunchanged352.080
Eliminates the role of the federal centers for disease control and prevention from the determination of policies and practices in the state of New York; directs the use of nationally recognized clinical practice guidelines and best practices.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Enacts the "community solar opportunity and local approval reform (Community SOLAR) act"; authorizes municipalities to establish standards for distributed generation energy facilities.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires notification of victims of crime, including sexual offenses, about the address confidentiality program.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Directs the metropolitan transportation authority to rename the Kingston Avenue train station, located in the borough of Brooklyn, to the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters at Kingston Avenue station.02/25/2026unclassifiedunchanged186.080
Provides that every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of the United States, subjects or causes to be subjected any citizen of New York or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the federal or state constitution shall be liable to the injured party in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Renames the Winthrop street subway station on the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line of the NYC subway, located in the borough of Brooklyn, to the SUNY Downstate at Winthrop Avenue station.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Requires parental notice prior to the performance of an abortion upon an unemancipated minor; defines unemancipated minor as person less than eighteen years of age; allows for waiver of such notice in limited instances; establishes circumstances and procedures for proceedings to obtain an order waiving such parental notification.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Establishes a right of action for the deprivation of constitutional rights; provides for compensatory damages, punitive damages, injunctive and declaratory relief, and reasonable attorney's fees.03/06/2026unclassifiedunchanged177.080
Relief of the Estate of M.N. by the Broward County Sheriff's Office03/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged170.080
Injunctions for Protection03/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged170.080
Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact03/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged170.080
Self-storage Spaces09/24/2025unclassifiedunchanged340.080
Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact03/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged170.080
Individual Education Plans03/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged170.080
Recovery of Damages for Medical Negligence Resulting in Death03/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged170.080
Equal Rights for Men and Women03/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged170.080
Sales of Ammunition03/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged170.080
Sale or Transfer of Ammunition03/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged170.080
Establishes a municipal group insurance technical assistance program for the purpose of assisting persons and municipalities with access to indemnity insurance and employee compensation pursuant to the volunteer firefighter's benefit law.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Extends the authority and oversight of wage boards to include the consideration of minimum standards for benefits and working conditions; changes the reference to such boards as workers' boards.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Employee Protections03/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged170.080
Grants retroactive tier IV membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Richard J. Vogt, III.05/06/2026unclassifiedunchanged116.080
Pregnant Women in Custody03/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged170.080
Treatment of Inmates03/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged170.080
Restoration of Rights Voting Database03/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged170.080
Requires the state to participate in the United Nations human rights council's universal periodic review by submitting a report in the capacity of a subnational stakeholder.04/28/2026unclassifiedunchanged124.080
Protects persons receiving care, employed, or otherwise present at a hospital from immigration arrests; prohibits federal immigration officers acting within the scope of their employment from entering hospitals unless supported by a judicial warrant or order; defines judicial warrant or order.01/27/2026unclassifiedunchanged215.080
Protects New Yorkers from unnecessary inquiry into immigration status by state agencies, employees, or departments and restricts the access of federal immigration authorities' to state buildings.01/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged235.080
Self-storage Spaces03/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged170.080
Booking Officer Duties Related to Minor Children of Arrested Persons03/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged170.080
Treatment of Inmates03/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged170.080
Continuity of Care in Health Insurance Contracts03/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged170.080
Protection of Specified Persons Against the Fraudulent and Exploitative Conveyance of Property Interests03/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged170.080