2025-2026 session: change session
Public Safety & Consumer Affairs bills
Bills on prisons and jails, parole, crime victims, consumer protection and election law. They are heard in the Crime Victims, Crime and Correction, Correction, Consumer Protection and Elections committees.
Highest impact
Impact is how much a bill would change if enacted, from 1 (minimal) to 10 (transformational). Passage is our estimate of the chance it becomes law this session. How we score
Ban Corporate Campaign Donations
This bill prohibits corporations and other artificial entities from engaging in political campaign or ballot-issue spending, revoking such powers except for registered political committees.
Impact 9 · Transformational·32% to pass
Impact9/10TransformationalPassage32%- A7811Assembly
Modernize Voter Registration Access
This bill modernizes New York's voter registration system, expands voting access (including online and same-day registration), enhances privacy and security, and mandates election audits.
Impact 9 · Transformational·23% to pass
Impact9/10TransformationalPassage23% - A4947Assembly
Protect Digital Privacy Rights
This bill establishes the New York Privacy Act, granting consumers new rights and protections over their personal data and imposing strict obligations on businesses.
Impact 9 · Transformational·18% to pass
Impact9/10TransformationalPassage18% End Forced Prison Labor
This bill reforms New York’s prison labor system, ending forced labor, guaranteeing minimum wage and labor rights for incarcerated workers, and abolishing prison industries’ preferred vendor status.
Impact 9 · Transformational·16% to pass
Impact9/10TransformationalPassage16%- S1208Senate
Create Prison Labor Board
This bill establishes a New York State prison labor board, ends forced labor, mandates minimum wage and labor rights for incarcerated workers, and eliminates Corcraft’s preferred vendor status.
Impact 9 · Transformational·12% to pass
Impact9/10TransformationalPassage12% Regulate Lawsuit Loans
This bill establishes regulations, licensing, disclosure, and consumer protections for third-party consumer litigation funding companies in New York.
Impact 8 · Significant·Signed into law
Impact8/10SignificantOutcomeSigned into lawRegulate Lawsuit Funding
This bill establishes comprehensive regulation of litigation funding contracts in New York, setting consumer protections, registration requirements, and limits on charges.
Impact 8 · Significant·Signed into law
Impact8/10SignificantOutcomeSigned into lawReform Correctional Services Rules
This bill updates laws on correctional facilities in New York, including expanded camera coverage, disclosure of footage and records, next of kin notifications, oversight, and tolling of legal…
Impact 8 · Significant·Signed into law
Impact8/10SignificantOutcomeSigned into lawLet Victims Sue Over Coerced Debt
This bill establishes legal protections and a right of action for victims of coerced debt resulting from economic abuse.
Impact 8 · Significant·Signed into law
Impact8/10SignificantOutcomeSigned into lawBan Credit Checks for Jobs
This bill prohibits most employers and government agencies in New York from using consumer credit history in employment and licensing decisions, with specific exceptions.
Impact 8 · Significant·Signed into law
Impact8/10SignificantOutcomeSigned into law
Most likely to pass
Bills not yet signed or vetoed, by Passage score.
Extend Voting After Disruptions
This bill allows New York election officials to extend voting hours if polling places face disruptions exceeding one hour, ensuring voters don't lose access.
Impact 8 · Significant·53% to pass
Impact8/10SignificantPassage53%Require Gas Stove Warning Labels
This bill requires warning labels on new gas stoves in New York to inform consumers about potential health risks from emissions.
Impact 6 · Moderate·50% to pass
Impact6/10ModeratePassage50%Ban Shackles on Pregnant Prisoners
This bill prohibits the use of restraints on pregnant or recently pregnant incarcerated individuals and during custodial interrogation, except in extraordinary circumstances, and mandates annual…
Impact 7 · Significant·49% to pass
Impact7/10SignificantPassage49%Require Domestic Violence Risk Screening
This bill requires law enforcement to conduct and record a lethality assessment in all domestic violence incidents and mandates related officer training.
Impact 7 · Significant·49% to pass
Impact7/10SignificantPassage49%Breast Pumps for Incarcerated Parents
This bill requires New York correctional facilities to provide breast pumps, lactation support, and related supplies to incarcerated nursing birth parents, along with establishing data reporting and…
Impact 6 · Moderate·49% to pass
Impact6/10ModeratePassage49%Protect Inmate Visiting Rights
This bill requires state and local correctional facilities to establish policies ensuring meaningful in-person visitation opportunities for incarcerated individuals.
Impact 7 · Significant·48% to pass
Impact7/10SignificantPassage48%Expand Victim Service Reporting
The "Survivors First Act" expands outreach and reporting requirements for New York's Office of Victim Services and revises award eligibility for crime victims.
Impact 7 · Significant·47% to pass
Impact7/10SignificantPassage47%Protect In-Person Prison Visits
This bill requires state and local correctional facilities to establish more accommodating in-person visiting policies for incarcerated individuals, ensuring visits are not replaced by video…
Impact 7 · Significant·47% to pass
Impact7/10SignificantPassage47%
Recently signed or vetoed
Require Baby Monitor Warnings
This bill requires baby monitors sold in New York to have security features and warning labels about internet connection risks.
Impact 6 · Moderate·Signed into law
Impact6/10ModerateOutcomeSigned into lawFine Hotels for Ignoring Trafficking Info
This bill imposes civil penalties on lodging facilities that fail to comply with requirements for providing information to human trafficking victims.
Impact 5 · Moderate·Signed into law
Impact5/10ModerateOutcomeSigned into lawNotify DV Victims of Confidentiality Expiry
This bill requires the Board of Elections to notify domestic violence victims before their confidential voter registration expires.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
Impact4/10LowOutcomeSigned into lawExtend Out-of-State Inmate Boarding
This bill extends the law allowing local jails to hold out-of-state inmates until 2029.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
Impact4/10LowOutcomeSigned into lawExtend Tribal Jail Agreements
This bill extends county agreements with the Oneida Indian Nation for jail use until 2033.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
Impact4/10LowOutcomeSigned into lawLimit Credit Checks for Jobs
This bill expands the definition of "employer" and removes certain restrictions on using consumer credit history for employment decisions in New York.
Impact 7 · Significant·Signed into law
Impact7/10SignificantOutcomeSigned into lawRequire Kratom Warning Labels
This bill updates labeling requirements for kratom products in New York, mandating extensive disclosures and warnings on packaging.
Impact 6 · Moderate·Signed into law
Impact6/10ModerateOutcomeSigned into lawBan Unfair Home Service Contracts
This bill expands the definition of exempt agreements under the unfair residential real estate service agreement law to include government-mandated or government-party contracts.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
Impact4/10LowOutcomeSigned into law