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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
Enacts the "crash victims bill of rights"; requires accident reports to be delivered to victims of accidents or their next of kin; requires victim impact statements to be delivered at traffic infraction hearings by injured parties or their next of kin; requires employers to grant leave of absence to employees delivering a victim impact statement at a traffic infraction hearing; directs the superintendent of financial services to conduct a study and complete a report on certain automobile crash information.03/20/2026unclassifiedunchanged163.080
Grants retirement service credit in the New York state and local retirement system to Jeffrey M. Hogan for service as a Utica firefighter from 3/24/2007 -- 1/3/2013.03/20/2026unclassifiedunchanged163.080
Prohibits the consideration of evidence that either parent has ever obtained or attempted to obtain reproductive health services relating to the termination of a pregnancy in certain legal proceedings.03/20/2026unclassifiedunchanged163.080
Prohibits mortgagee from refusing to accept partial mortgage payments from a mortgagor which does not bring the mortgagor current on such mortgagor's mortgage debt.03/20/2026unclassifiedunchanged163.080
Prohibits manufacturers or operators of networked camera devices to enable coordinated surveillance features on such devices as a default feature without first obtaining affirmative opt-in consent from the owner; requires disclosure of data rights for owners of such devices; prohibits coordinated surveillance features to be disclosed to law enforcement without a warrant; makes related provisions.03/20/2026unclassifiedunchanged163.080
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.03/20/2026unclassifiedunchanged163.080
Repeals prohibitions on hydraulic fracturing; establishes new permitting procedures regarding hydraulic fracturing.03/20/2026unclassifiedunchanged163.080
Provides for the establishment of a nexus with the state of New York relating to unlawful discriminatory practices.03/20/2026unclassifiedunchanged163.080
World Autism Awareness Day.05/11/2026unclassifiedunchanged111.080
Grants retirement service credit in the New York state and local retirement system to Jeffrey M. Hogan for service as a Utica firefighter from 3/24/2007 -- 1/3/2013.03/24/2026unclassifiedunchanged159.080
Relative to the Armenian Genocide.04/20/2026unclassifiedunchanged132.080
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 31, 2026, as Farmworkers Day in the State of New York03/31/2026unclassifiedunchanged152.080
Commemorating the 115th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on March 25, 202603/25/2026unclassifiedunchanged158.080
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Prisoners' Legal Services of New York03/31/2026unclassifiedunchanged152.080
Relative to California Holocaust Memorial Day.04/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged139.080
Establishes the New York state energy savings program authorizing the establishment of energy savings accounts; establishes a personal income tax deduction for deposits into such accounts.03/26/2026unclassifiedunchanged157.080
Relative to California Holocaust Memorial Day.04/13/2026unclassifiedunchanged139.080
Enacts the restriction of anticoagulant pesticide transactions for online and retail stores act to prohibit any person from selling, offering for sale or use, or distributing within the state, any second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide; prohibits the use of either a first-generation anticoagulant rodenticide or a second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide within five hundred feet of a wildlife habitat area.03/31/2026unclassifiedunchanged152.080
Provides for owner liability related to construction industry wage theft.03/27/2026unclassifiedunchanged156.080
Establishes the child care savings program; provides for the functions and powers of the comptroller related to such program and for program requirements and limitations.03/27/2026unclassifiedunchanged156.080
Enacts the "End the Toll Trap: Real Relief for Drivers Act" to address excess administrative costs incurred by public authorities for the collection of toll payments and to ensure repeat toll evaders pay such costs; creates the New York and New Jersey toll and fees reduction task force to examine and evaluate the efficacy of current payment processing procedures and systems, and to provide recommendations to increase efficacy and reduce tolls and administrative fees.03/27/2026unclassifiedunchanged156.080
Enacts the "housing transparency act"; requires the division of housing and community renewal to establish and maintain a statewide rental unit compliance registry for covered buildings within the state.05/14/2026unclassifiedunchanged108.080
Authorizes the use of funds from Peconic Bay region community preservation funds for the acquisition of waterfront conservation easements to maintain and enhance maritime industries and heritage, including for working waterfront, aquaculture, commercial fisheries, recreational fishing and boating businesses.03/30/2026unclassifiedunchanged153.080
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.03/31/2026unclassifiedunchanged152.080
Authorizes and regulates the operation of marine transportation network companies outside of a city of one million or more.03/31/2026unclassifiedunchanged152.080
Establishes a private right of action for any person whose personally identifying information was intentionally disclosed by another individual, without consent, for the purpose of harassing, threatening, intimidating, or causing harm to such person, or with reckless disregard as to whether such disclosure would cause such harm; defines personal information.03/31/2026unclassifiedunchanged152.080
Restricts the disclosure of personal information by businesses; provides that a business that retains a customer's personal information shall make available to the customer free of charge access to, or copies of, all of the customer's personal information retained by the business.04/01/2026unclassifiedunchanged151.080
Authorizes cities and towns, except a city with a population of one million or more, to establish community housing funds; authorizes such cities and towns to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited in such funds; makes related provisions.04/01/2026unclassifiedunchanged151.080
Prohibits discrimination in government procurement.04/01/2026unclassifiedunchanged151.080
Provides that no state or local agency, or any agent thereof, may use any funds, facilities, property, equipment or personnel of such agency to investigate, enforce or provide assistance in the investigation or enforcement of any federal program requiring registration of individuals, or maintaining a database of individuals, on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation, religion or national or ethnic origin.04/01/2026unclassifiedunchanged151.080
Enhances protections for child performer trust accounts; establishes how much gross earnings shall be set aside for such child performer.04/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged145.080
Amends the definition of motor vehicle to exclude personal delivery devices; requires personal delivery device operators demonstrate an adequate safety record and proof of insurance; subjects personal delivery devices to traffic rules and laws applicable to pedestrians; sets speed limits; requires such devices to obey all traffic and pedestrian control devices, and set minimum equipment standards.04/01/2026unclassifiedunchanged151.080
Provides representation to veterans that are at or below four hundred percent of the federal poverty guidelines for matters involving children, sustenance and real property proceedings.04/01/2026unclassifiedunchanged151.080
Provides that in the siting of new electric transmission facilities, priority shall be given to major electric transmission facilities that are proposed to be sited in existing rights-of-way including those owned by an electric corporation or distribution utility, or by the state, including any subdivision thereof, or a state public authority, for state highway or transportation purposes, and railroad corridors.05/19/2026unclassifiedunchanged103.080
Requires a course of instruction on the provisions of the federalist papers and the United States constitution to be provided to high school students.04/01/2026unclassifiedunchanged151.080
Enacts the restriction of anticoagulant pesticide transactions for online and retail stores act to prohibit any person from selling, offering for sale or use, or distributing within the state, any second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide; prohibits the use of either a first-generation anticoagulant rodenticide or a second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide within five hundred feet of a wildlife habitat area.04/06/2026unclassifiedunchanged146.080
Provides that certain communications made without malice regarding an incident of sexual assault, harassment or discrimination shall be deemed privileged; provides that a prevailing defendant in an action brought against such defendant for making a communication that is privileged shall be entitled to attorney's fees and costs for such defense.04/02/2026unclassifiedunchanged150.080
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.04/02/2026unclassifiedunchanged150.080
Requires compliance with the uniform land use review procedure for the disposition of school property in New York city.04/02/2026unclassifiedunchanged150.080
Prohibits insurance companies from discriminating based on genetic predisposition including refusing to issue or renew, charging any increased rate, or restricting any length of coverage; prohibits insurers from requiring genetic testing.04/02/2026unclassifiedunchanged150.080
Establishes the diversity in investment act requiring certain venture capital companies to report diversity information about its funding determinations; requires reports to be published on the venture capital companies' websites; establishes penalties for failure to complete and publish such reports.04/02/2026unclassifiedunchanged150.080
Prohibits the eviction of small commercial tenants in the city of New York without good cause.04/02/2026unclassifiedunchanged150.080
Establishes a continuing care retirement community bill of rights; requires the commissioner of health to designate a county ombudsperson to monitor such bill of rights.04/02/2026unclassifiedunchanged150.080
Establishes the right to legal counsel in immigration court proceedings; provides for the administration thereof.04/02/2026unclassifiedunchanged150.080
Establishes confirmatory adoptions providing for the adoption of children born as a result of assisted reproduction; allows for more than two persons to be named parents of a child; establishes presumed parentage and provides for the challenge and adjudication thereof; repeals certain provisions relating thereto.04/02/2026unclassifiedunchanged150.080
Requires fashion sellers to carry out environmental due diligence for the portions of their business related to wearing apparel, footwear or fashion bags, including wearing apparel, footwear or fashion bags produced as a private label; establishes a fashion remediation fund.04/02/2026unclassifiedunchanged150.080
Includes sporting events within the definition of places of public entertainment and amusement for purposes of wrongful refusal of admission to and ejection from places of public entertainment and amusement.04/02/2026unclassifiedunchanged150.080
Relates to the payment of shelter and rent arrears; provides that all shelter arrears payments authorized for applicants to receive an emergency grant to pay for rent, property taxes or mortgage arrears shall be limited to once every year unless the district determines at its discretion that additional shelter arrears payments are necessary based on the individual circumstances.04/02/2026unclassifiedunchanged150.080
Authorizes the governor to deploy non-state resource providers to the northern emergency management assistance compact and the international emergency management assistance compact.04/07/2026unclassifiedunchanged145.080
Protects minors online from social media and harmful content; establishes penalties for failing to restrict certain minors from certain content.04/06/2026unclassifiedunchanged146.080