New New York laws taking effect July 1, 2026
11 laws take effect July 1, 2026.
Of the 1,083 bills enacted since 2025, 1,062 have an effective date and 21 don't yet (listed below). A law here takes effect that day by its main provisions; parts of a staggered act may take effect on other dates.
Updated Nov 4, 2026 at 8:23 p.m. EST.
Education (5)
A 7053 · 2025 Regular SessionStated
Relates to scholarships for academic excellence
How we got this date
This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.
A 761 · 2025 Regular SessionDerived
Reduces tuition rates for certain Olympic athletes
How we got this date
This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
Signed by the Governor Nov 21, 2025 → July 1 next following Jul 1, 2026
S 1349 · 2025 Regular SessionStated
Requires school districts to provide information regarding water safety to parents or students upon enrollment
How we got this date
This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.
S 3390 · 2025 Regular SessionDerived
Requires institutions of higher education make available their policy on notifying the parent, guardian, or emergency contact of a student under twenty-one of certain controlled substance or alcohol violations
How we got this date
This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
Signed by the Governor Dec 5, 2025 → July 1 next following Jul 1, 2026
Parts of this act take effect on other dates.
S 3735 · 2025 Regular SessionStated
Empowers the commissioner of education to declare a disaster has substantially impacted a school board or school budget election and to allow school boards to set an additional day for voting
How we got this date
This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.
Budget (4)
A 11358 · 2025 Regular SessionStated
Extends provisions of law relating to temporary investments by local governments
How we got this date
This act shall take effect immediately; provided however, that if this act shall have become a law after July 1, 2026 it shall be deemed to have been in full force and effect on and after July 1, 2026.
A 11539 · 2025 Regular SessionStated
Relates to extending the deadline for reduction in class size under contracts for excellence in a city school district in a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants
How we got this date
This act shall take effect on July 1, 2026.
A 11555 · 2025 Regular SessionStated
Relates to increasing certain special accidental death benefits paid to widows and orphaned children of members
How we got this date
This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.
S 596 · 2025 Regular SessionDerived
Provides a rebuttable presumption relating to recertification as a minority and women-owned business enterprise
How we got this date
This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding the date upon which it shall have become a law
Signed by the Governor Dec 19, 2025 → July 1 next following Jul 1, 2026
Healthcare (1)
S 2590 · 2025 Regular SessionStated
Requires nonpublic schools provide and maintain on-site automatic external defibrillators on school grounds
How we got this date
This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.
Parts of this act take effect on other dates.
Other (1)
A 9451 · 2025 Regular SessionDerived
Provides a rebuttable presumption relating to recertification as a minority and women-owned business enterprise
How we got this date
This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the executive law relating to providing a rebuttable presumption relating to recertif- ication as a minority and women-owned business enterprise, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 596 and A. 2296, takes effect.
Enacted, but not yet dated (21)
These laws' texts tie their dates to something outside the legislative record (Contingent), or not enough is recorded yet to give one (Unresolved). They may take effect July 1, 2026 too; the record doesn't say.
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- A 1021UnresolvedEstablishes when services for traumatic brain injuries granted pursuant to a waiver shall begina chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the social services law, as proposed in legislative bill number 7369 isn't in the record
- A 10344UnresolvedExtends certain provisions relating to supermarkets providing excess edible food to food relief organizationschapter 352 of the laws of 2020 isn't in the record
- A 11368UnresolvedExtends certain provisions relating to physical therapy assistantstwo clauses set different dates for the same provision
- A 11547ContingentRelates to the staffing and operations of a cancer research institute and a related not-for-profit corporationCompletion of the transfer of all grants from Health Research, Inc. to Roswell Park Cancer Research Corporation
- A 1676UnresolvedRelates to the commissioner of corrections and community supervision's heat mitigation plan for correctional facilitiesS 7781's own effective date isn't resolved
- A 2432UnresolvedRelates to reducing work related musculoskeletal disorderstwo clauses set different dates for the same provision
- A 3002UnresolvedDEBT SERVICE FUND--GENERAL DEBT SERVICE FUNDno enacted text on file
- A 329ContingentRelates to setting integrated behavioral health servicesRates of reimbursement for integrated behavioral health services approved and certified by OMH and OASAS, or the regulations under MHL 36.06(d) become effective, whichever is later
- A 7906UnresolvedClarifies the provision of donate life registration to certain insured personschapter 758 of the laws of 2022, as amended by chapter 159 of the laws of 2024 isn't in the record
- A 8432UnresolvedExtends provisions of law relating to enforcement and support obligations through the suspension of driving privilegestwo clauses set different dates for the same provision
- A 8433UnresolvedExtends current exemptions of income and resources for public assistance programstwo clauses set different dates for the same provision
- A 8661UnresolvedExtends provisions of law related to youth pheasant hunting on long islandtwo clauses set different dates for the same provision
- A 927UnresolvedIncludes information on congenital heart defect births as part of the department of health's health care and wellness education and outreach program; repealerS 9283's own effective date isn't resolved
- A 9438UnresolvedRelates to price comparisons of prices charged by energy services companiestwo clauses set different dates for the same provision
- A 9514UnresolvedRelates to the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to excluding certain food donations from sales taxS 2279's own effective date isn't resolved
- S 2279ContingentExcludes certain food donations from sales taxFirst day of a sales tax quarterly period (Tax Law 1136(b)) beginning at least 90 days after the act becomes law
- S 3497UnresolvedExtends provisions relating to the mortgage tax in the county of Yatestwo clauses set different dates for the same provision
- S 753UnresolvedRelates to the definition of medical debtS 8373's own effective date isn't resolved
- S 789UnresolvedRelates to findings in child abuse or neglect proceedingsS 7348's own effective date isn't resolved
- S 8047UnresolvedRelates to the Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex in Essex CountyCONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY proposing an amendment to section 1 of article 14 of the constitution, in relation to the Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex in Essex County isn't in the record
- S 8273ContingentRelates to property used by the Greenburgh North Castle Union Free School District number 12 and authorizes such school district to affiliate with Rising Ground, Inc.; repealerEarlier of July 1, 2025 or the expiration of the lease agreement for property at 623 Blooming Grove Turnpike, town of New Windsor, Orange county