US state regulation
New York
Every state-level regulation PlainRegWatch tracks for New York - across data privacy, AI, food chemical bans, right to repair and worker protection, with status, effective dates and official sources.
- Tracker score
- 62/100 Top quartile
- Regulations tracked
- 8 Top 10%
- Enacted into law
- 7
- Categories regulated
- 4/5
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Dense archive shelf. 8 tracked rows put New York in the densest third of the state corpus (#4 of 51 by volume).
The verdict
New York is a dense, high-tracker archive: 8 tracked rows and 62/100, with 7 enacted across 4 of 5 policy areas, led by Employment & Worker Protection.
- 62/100
- tracker (ceiling tercile)
- 8
- tracked rows (dense tercile)
- 7
- enacted into law
- Employment & Worker Protection
- WORKER-LED lead area
Tracker score is a 0–100 portal-derived measure: weighted counts of records marked enacted across five covered categories, normalized to the top result, not enforcement strength, legal burden, or an official state rating.
State archive posture brief
New York legislative archive posture
Entity-varying stamps from New York's rows in the five-category PlainRegWatch archive, volume band, enactment share, tracker score, and corpus rank, not a clone nationwide scaffold.
- 8 Tracked rows in archive
- 7 Enacted into law 88% share
- 1 Pending bills tracked
- 62/100 Portal tracker score
- #4 Of 51 by volume
- #7 Of 51 by tracker score
- Oregon Nearest volume peer 8 rows
- 4 Of 5 policy areas Employment & Worker Protection
Enacted-volume neighbourhood
Enacted statute count among nearest archive-volume peers (snapshot 2026-07-16).
State context
New York's archive volume vs the tracked state corpus
Dense archive shelf: New York is above the peer average for tracked volume and above the peer average for tracker score. Highlighted point = this state.
PlainRegWatch methodology: tracker score is a normalized enacted-count index, not legal burden. Placement method.
New York enactments by year
Enacted regulations tracked in PlainRegWatch since 2015 · peak 2 in 2017
Policy coverage
New York enacted mix · WORKER-LED
Worker-protection-led shelf: each card is live from New York's rows (enacted counts only), with links into the national category hubs.
New York regulatory footprint index
A single 0-100 index combining New York's standing on 3 of 3 tracked measures: enacted-law volume, portal tracker strictness, and tracked-category breadth. This describes how extensive New York's tracked regulatory footprint is, not a judgment of good or bad governance. A missing measure would drop out and redistribute its weight rather than deflating the index.
95/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Enacted volume
- A 8 tracked
96th percentile nationwide
- Tracker strictness
- A 62/100
94th percentile nationwide
- Category breadth
- A 4 categories
96th percentile nationwide
Benchmarked live against every state reporting each measure in the current portal tracker. Not a legal, compliance, or governance-quality score; PlainRegWatch's own weighting (enacted volume 40%, tracker strictness 35%, category breadth 25%).
💼 Employment & Worker Protection
New York City Salary History Ban (NYC)
Int 1253-A Effective: 2017-10-31NYC (not yet statewide) prohibits salary history questions in hiring. First major city ordinance.
New York Minimum Wage Act
Labor Law 652 Effective: 2025-01-01New York minimum wage $16.50/hr NYC/Long Island/Westchester; $15.50/hr remainder (2025). Annual CPI indexing from 2027.
New York Paid Family Leave + Earned Safe and Sick Leave
L 2016 c. 54 / A 2882-A Effective: 2021-01-01New York PFL: 12 weeks at 67% state average weekly wage. Paid sick: 56 hrs/year (employers 100+), 40 hrs (5-99 employees).
New York Pay Transparency Law
S 9427-A Effective: 2023-09-17Pay ranges for employers with 4+ employees.
NYC Fair Workweek Law (Retail + Fast Food)
Int 1396 / Int 1387 Effective: 2017-11-26New York City Fair Workweek Laws for fast food (72-hr advance notice) and retail (72-hr advance notice, on-call scheduling ban).
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Read with New York
Nearest archive-volume peers and tracker-score poles for New York (DENSE · MID · ACTIVE), replacing the old fixed Related strip.
DENSE MID ACTIVE WORKER-LED
Oregon · DENSE
Oregon tracks 8 rows (more by 0 than New York); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Colorado · DENSE
Colorado tracks 8 rows (more by 0 than New York); tracker stamp CEILING vs MID.
Illinois · DENSE
Illinois tracks 9 rows (more by 1 than New York); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Washington · DENSE
Washington tracks 7 rows (fewer by 1 than New York); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Employment & Worker Protection hub · WORKER-LED
New York's lead category is Employment & Worker Protection (5 enacted) under the WORKER-LED archive stamp.
Regulations by category in New York
Source: State regulatory filings (IAPP / MultiState aggregation) New York state-rule registry · 2023 New York: 8 tracked · 7 enacted · tracker 62/100 (DENSE/MID). Status reflects the latest legislative tracker snapshot.
Counts and tracker score are New York's rows in the curated five-category archive · as of July 2026.