July 1 marks the start of a new fiscal year for most U.S. states, and with that comes the enactment of new laws. Here’s a list of the notable ones:

  • Floridians can carry weapons without a permit

  • California makes it easier for residents, local governments and the state attorney general to sue firearm retailers in civil court

  • Kansas bans transgender people from using restrooms, locker rooms, domestic violence shelters and rape crisis centers that are consistent with their gender identities

  • Georgia blocks most gender-affirming care for transgender people under 18

  • Florida bans classroom instruction on STIs and periods before sixth grade

  • Near-complete ban on no-knock warrants in Minnesota

  • Virginia classifies fentanyl as a ‘weapon of terrorism’

  • Marriage licenses for kids are banned in Connecticut

  • Indiana repeals ban on throwing stars, except on school property. The statute defines throwing stars to “mean a throwing-knife, throwing-iron, or other knife-like weapon with blades set at different angles.”

  • Tougher consumer data privacy laws in Colorado and Connecticut expected to afford residents more control over their personal data

  • Pornography sites required to take “reasonable steps” to verify that their users are at least 18 years old in Virginia

  • School books with sex acts are now banned in Iowa

  • Restrictions on certain race and gender topics in Tennessee

  • Mississippi picks the blueberry as its state fruit


Notable laws not included in NBC’s article:

  • Maryland legalizes recreational marijuana for those 21 and above presenting an ID

  • Connecticut makes it legal for people to grow marijuana

  • Massachusetts allows people who are in the country illegally to apply for a state driver’s license

  • Washington will deduct a tax from workers’ paychecks to fund a mandatory long-term care insurance program for residents who can’t live independently due to illness, injury or aging-related conditions

  • Washington and Idaho pick state dinosaurs

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Maryland legalization of recreational marijuana comes into effect today, accompanied by record expungement. That’s kinda notable.

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Nice to have more positive changes!

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Not advocating for it but we don’t need to be locking people up or scarring them for life over that stuff.

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