An agave Margarita and gin Martini made by mixologist Jacques Bezuidenhout sit on a bar within the Starlight Room of the Sir Francis Drake Resort in San Francisco, Dec. 20, 2012.
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Beginning immediately in Kansas, suppliers are imagined to ask sufferers why they’re getting an abortion. A Florida regulation goes into impact permitting individuals who shoot bears on their property a “Stand Your Floor” sort protection. It is July 1, so states throughout the nation are placing legal guidelines into impact.
From reporting throughout the NPR community, listed here are a couple of notable new legal guidelines.
California drink take a look at kits
In California, bars and nightclubs that solely serve prospects 21 and over should present take a look at kits for drug testing drinks both free of charge or for a minimal value. These varieties of companies should additionally put up a discover studying: “Don’t get roofied! Drink spiking drug take a look at kits out there right here. Ask a employees member for particulars” in a conspicuous location.
KPBS stories that Devin Blankenship, with the California Division of Alcoholic Beverage Management, says he hopes the regulation supplies a way of safety for individuals who go to bars and nightclubs, “In the event that they’re ever suspicious of one thing occurring, that they are capable of attain out to the employees, request a take a look at package, take a look at their drink and have the ability to get pleasure from themselves with out worrying about somebody messing or tampering with their drink.”
Kansas abortion suppliers should ask sufferers why
Because the Kansas Information Service stories, beginning immediately, abortion suppliers are imagined to be required to ask sufferers which of 11 attainable causes is most related to their determination to get an abortion. Potential causes embody that the affected person can not financially afford a toddler or that the being pregnant resulted from rape or incest.
But in addition immediately, a Deliberate Parenthood spokesperson mentioned that the Kansas well being division “has said that it’s going to not implement this intrusive regulation, for now” and a well being division spokesperson didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from the Kansas Information Service.
The query is optionally available — the regulation states that if somebody refuses to reply, their refusal shall be recorded. However lawmakers voted down a proposed modification that may have clarified to sufferers that the query is optionally available.
Iowa restricts hemp consumables
Beginning immediately, Iowa bars the sale of hemp-infused “consumables,” like gummies or drinks, to anybody below the age of 21, in line with reporting from Iowa Public Radio, as different states grapple with how and whether or not to control consumable hemp.
The brand new rules limit the efficiency of consumable hemp merchandise that include the psychoactive substance THC. One subject is that the precise particulars of the regulation and the way it is going to be enforced are nonetheless being decided. And in relation to THC in drinks, it will get much more sophisticated.
Georgia swatting penalties
These convicted in Georgia of calling in false alarms to houses or companies — a criminal offense often called swatting — will face a felony prison cost as a substitute of a misdemeanor, as reported by Georgia Public Broadcasting. Lawmakers elevated the penalty after a number of Georgia public officers have been the targets of swatting at their houses.
‘Stand your floor’ however for bears (in Florida)
Underneath a regulation in Florida, folks will not be topic to penalties for killing bears in the event that they “moderately believed” that their motion was essential to keep away from the specter of dying or critical bodily harm to an individual, pet or property.
As reported by WFSU, the regulation sparked critical debate within the legislature. Individuals who shoot bears can be required to inform the state inside 24 hours and present they didn’t deliberately place themselves or pets in conditions the place they wanted to kill bears.
California ‘junk charges’
In California, as KQED stories, firms must disclose the complete value of all the pieces from resort rooms to live performance tickets upfront due to a state regulation taking impact that bans so-called junk charges. These are the hidden prices that get tacked onto a invoice proper earlier than you pay.
After some last-minute political wrangling in Sacramento, the restaurant trade is exempt from the brand new regulation.
As KQED factors out, Minnesota’s governor additionally signed a regulation this spring banning junk charges. And lawmakers in Connecticut and New York are contemplating related laws.
Tennesse protects musicians from unauthorized AI
This yr, Tennessee grew to become the primary state to guard musicians from synthetic intelligence impersonation. In accordance with WPLN, that regulation is one in every of at the very least 10 notable legal guidelines to take impact immediately.
The regulation, known as the Guaranteeing Likeness Voice and Picture Safety Act, or ELVIS Act, bans the unauthorized use of performers’ voices amid worries about how the expertise may have an effect on the music trade.
