We pass many laws in the state Legislature during session; however, some enacted laws have delayed effective dates. Please see below for the new laws that take effect this month.
| Effective Date | Chapter | Summary |
| 9/1/2024 | Ch. 357 of 2023 | Establishes student governments in secondary schools. |
| 9/1/2024 | Ch. 32 of 2024
§§1 and 2 |
Extends the effective date for the study by the State Office For The Aging on the number of older adults residing in Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities or Neighborhood Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities who are suffering from social isolation and loneliness. |
| 9/1/2024 | Ch. 23 of 2024 | Enacts the Rape Is Rape Act, redefining rape in New York’s penal law to include nonconsensual vaginal, oral and anal sexual contact. |
| 9/1/2024 | Ch. 56 of 2024
Part WW |
Strengthens penalties related to obstructed or obscured license plates and clarifies the tolls by mail program. |
| 9/1/2024 | Ch. 220 of 2024 | Requires the board of elections to provide a domestic postage paid return envelope which a voter may use to return a cure affirmation in paper form by mail; provides that a cure affirmation may be delivered in person, by mail or in electronic form as an attachment to an email. |
| 9/12/2024 | Ch. 119 of 2024 | Provides for the annual inspection of any vessel operated on privately or publicly owned underground non-navigable waterways with no navigable inlet or outlet that carry passengers for compensation. |
| 9/22/2024 | Ch. 216 of 2024 | Enacts amendments to the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act. |
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