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Bills affecting Religious minority in New York (2026 session)
CivicRadar surfaces 15 active New York bills this session that affect religious minority constituents directly. Your rep needs to hear from you before the vote.
Top 15 bills, ranked
Ranked by how strongly each bill matches the religious minority community, weighted by stage, recency, advocacy-org consensus, and sponsor support.
- 01NY · S05405In committee
Requires hate crime awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts.
- 02NY · S01943In committee
Expands the criteria for a hate crime to include trespass committed at a house of worship.
- 03NY · A10124In committee
Prohibits youthful offender status for persons who commit a hate crime.
- 04NY · S00025In committee
Bars a person who is convicted of a hate crime from attending any SUNY or CUNY institution; provides for the expulsion of a student who is convicted of hate crimes; provides for reinstatement of such student if the conviction is subsequently overturned.
- 05NY · S00103In committee
Enacts the "New York religious freedom act".
- 06NY · A04766In committee
Requires an arrest where a police officer has reasonable cause to believe a hate crime has been committed.
- 07NY · S01934In committee
Relates to the creation of the "No Hate NY" license plate and the "No Hate NY fund" to support hate crime awareness and prevention programs.
- 08NY · A01378In committee
Relates to presumptive evidence that a person committed a hate crime by evaluating a certain set of facts and circumstances.
- 09NY · A02159In committee
Increases the sentencing classification of misdemeanor hate crime offenses or of an attempt or conspiracy to commit a specified offense that is a misdemeanor to a class E felony.
- 10NY · S01252In committee
Establishes a rebuttable presumption of a hate crime when certain crimes are committed on, in or upon a house of worship.
- 11NY · S04241In committee
Requires a principal, superintendent or a principal's or superintendent's designee to notify law enforcement if they believe a hate crime is occurring.
- 12NY · S04768In committee
Includes solicitation or facilitation of certain crimes as a specified offense for the purposes of a hate crime.
- 13NY · S06176In committee
Requires the district attorney to file information with the accusatory instrument when certain crimes are committed against a female and it is not charged as a hate crime.
- 14NY · S06547In committee
Relates to the "Heather D. Heyer act" which increases penalties where a vehicle is used as a weapon in a hate crime and makes it illegal to travel upon a roadway in a vehicle within 1000 feet of a protest.
- 15NY · A07215Introduced
Establishes the false reporting survivors act which establishes the crimes of aggravated falsely reporting an incident in the first, second, and third degrees when a person commits the crime of falsely reporting an incident in the first, second, or third degree and such person intended to harass, annoy, threaten, or alarm another person because of a belief or perception regarding a person's race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or ethnicity; authorizes officers to arrest persons believed to have committed falsely reporting an incident without first obtaining a warrant; includes such falsely reporting as a hate crime; authorizes the law enforcement misconduct investigative office to receive and investigate complaints alleging falsely reporting an incident; establishes databases of law enforcement officers and persons convicted of falsely reporting; requires notifying persons of the termination of certain criminal actions or proceedings; relates to the statute of limitations for filing an action relating to falsely reporting.
- What religious minority bills are moving in New York in 2026?
- CivicRadar currently tracks 15 New York bills this session that affect religious minority constituents including Requires hate crime awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts.; Expands the criteria for a hate crime to include trespass committed at a house of worship.; Prohibits youthful offender status for persons who commit a hate crime..
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- How does CivicRadar decide which bills affect religious minority people?
- CivicRadar matches bill text, sponsor signals, and advocacy-organization positions against a curated set of identity keywords, then ranks by legislative stage and recency. See the Methodology page for the full breakdown.
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