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A slate of new Texas laws go into effect December and January
By Alex Nguyen The Texas Tribune Nov. 26, 2025
Laws include restricting transgender people’s access to public bathrooms, allowing lawsuits against abortion pill providers, and replacement of the STAAR test. Dozens of new Texas laws will take effect in December and January, bringing wideranging changes to the state’s education system, law enforcement, taxes and more.
Over 800 laws from this year’s regular legislative session already took effect on Sept. 1, but more measures from that period as well as the second special session will soon activate. Some also had to wait for voters’ approval, such as more tax exemption for businesses’ inventory. Notably, the legislation behind the Texas GOP’s middecade push to redraw the congressional map and get five more seats for President Donald Trump is supposed to take effect on Dec. 4. The
measure took two special sessions this summer to pass, after most of the Texas House Democrats skipped town in protest and froze legislative businesses. Now, all eyes are on the legal fight over the new lines, which escalated to the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal court ruled against Texas earlier this month. The high court has temporarily restored the new map, while the justices consider their final decision. A recent lawsuit also halted the constitutional amendment
that allows Senate Bill 5 to go into effect Dec. 1. A priority of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick during the regular session, the law would create the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to study dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other brain-related conditions, as the state is growing older faster than the rest of the country. In early November, voters approved the constitutional amendment providing $3 billion in surplus state revenue
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