NYC Council committee
Civil and Human Rights
The committee is the Council’s own label for what a bill is about; every bill is referred to one. Outcome numbers cover 2010 to 2025; the bills below are the full 2024 to 2027 session.
106
bills referred, 2010 to 2025
36
became law
34%
of this committee’s bills became law
From official Council records. The counts are the record; the interpretation is yours.
Who sits on it
5 members, from official Council rosters.
Became law
Pay data reporting by private employers.
Overridden by Council (Dec 4, 2025)
Study on pay equity for private employees.
Overridden by Council (Dec 4, 2025)
Requiring the installation and maintenance of an informational sign at the intersection of Wall and Pearl Streets in Manhattan to mark the site of New York’s first slave market.
Returned Unsigned by Mayor (Oct 15, 2024)
The creation of a truth, healing, and reconciliation process.
Returned Unsigned by Mayor (Oct 15, 2024)
Studying the impacts of slavery and its legacies in New York city and recommending potential reparative measures for resulting harms.
Returned Unsigned by Mayor (Oct 15, 2024)
Establishing a New York city freedom trail task force.
Returned Unsigned by Mayor (Oct 15, 2024)
Prohibiting provisions in employment agreements that shorten the period in which claims and complaints of unlawful discriminatory practices, harassment or violence may be filed and in which civil actions may be commenced.
Returned Unsigned by Mayor (May 13, 2024)
Moving now
Requiring quarterly reporting on lawful source of income discrimination in housing accommodations.
Referred to Comm by Council (Apr 16, 2026)
Requiring employers to hold an onboarding meeting to discuss an employee's reintegration back into the workplace after parental leave.
Referred to Comm by Council (Feb 24, 2026)
Creating a school diversity monitor within the human rights commission.
Referred to Comm by Council (Feb 12, 2026)
Extending the statute of limitations for commencing a private cause of action under the city human rights law.
Re-referred to Committee by Council (Aug 6, 2026)
An annual education campaign to combat antisemitism and promote inclusion.
Referred to Comm by Council (Feb 12, 2026)
Artist preferences in housing under the human rights law.
Referred to Comm by Council (Jan 29, 2026)
Information required in job listings.
Referred to Comm by Council (Jan 29, 2026)
The rights of persons who engage in sex work.
Referred to Comm by Council (Jan 29, 2026)
The definition of gender in the human rights law.
Referred to Comm by Council (Jan 29, 2026)
Enforcing the human rights law and conducting an information campaign for places of public accommodation.
Referred to Comm by Council (Jan 29, 2026)
Definitions of identifying information and private information.
Referred to Comm by Council (Jan 29, 2026)
Extending reasonable workplace accommodations to caregivers.
Referred to Comm by Council (Jan 29, 2026)
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openDied
Artist preferences in housing under the human rights law.
Filed (End of Session) (Dec 31, 2025)
Definitions of identifying information and private information.
Filed (End of Session) (Dec 31, 2025)
Increasing the maximum civil penalty for unlawful discriminatory practices or acts of discriminatory harassment or violence.
Filed (End of Session) (Dec 31, 2025)
Prohibiting restrictions that bar the display of religious items on entry doors and doorframes.
Filed (End of Session) (Dec 31, 2025)
Definition of gender in the human rights law.
Filed (End of Session) (Dec 31, 2025)
Increasing the maximum civil penalty for failure to comply with an order issued by the New York city commission on human rights.
Filed (End of Session) (Dec 31, 2025)
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openCommittee assignment as recorded at referral in official Council records. Every introduction of the current session is covered.