{"id":111733,"date":"2026-01-05T20:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/111733\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T20:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:36:10","slug":"4-new-texas-laws-that-took-effect-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/111733\/","title":{"rendered":"4 new Texas laws that took effect this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> By <a class=\"reporter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/by\/cp-staff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> CP Staff<\/a>Monday, January 05, 2026<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/158160_w_850_563.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" alt=\"Texas state Capitol in Austin, Texas. \" width=\"850\" height=\"563\"\/>Texas state Capitol in Austin, Texas.  | Amy Sparwasser\/iStock<\/p>\n<p>More than 30 new laws went into effect in Texas on Jan. 1, covering topics ranging from artificial intelligence, gender, and immigration to app store regulation and property rights.<\/p>\n<p>Following last year\u2019s historic regular session in which Texas state lawmakers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/5-new-texas-laws-set-to-take-effect-next-month.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">passed <\/a>hundreds of new laws, several of those laws took effect in December, including a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/4-things-to-know-about-texas-new-bathroom-bill.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bathroom bill<\/a>\u201d prohibiting men from entering women&#8217;s restrooms (SB 8), allowing private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, provides or distributes abortion pills (HB 7), and making the anti-parasitic paste Ivermectin available without a prescription (HB 25)<\/p>\n<p>From requiring Ten Commandments displays in public schools to establishing legal definitions for \u201cman\u201d and \u201cwoman,&#8221; here are four new Texas laws that took effect on Jan. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CP StaffMonday, January 05, 2026Texas state Capitol in Austin, Texas. | Amy Sparwasser\/iStock More than 30 new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13723,4267,132,134,133,1829,1724,7067,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-111733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-13723","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-austin","11":"tag-austin-headlines","12":"tag-austin-news","13":"tag-ice","14":"tag-immigration","15":"tag-squatters","16":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}