Hundreds of New State Laws Take Effect

Hundreds of new state laws took effect this week in multiple states, covering consumer protections, taxes and personal-rights measures. Maine enacted measures that ban medical debt from credit reports, allow prescribers of the abortion pill to omit their names from labels, and expand consumer protections including ticket-resale fee disclosures as well as symbolic state designations. Connecticut enacted nearly 90 laws set to take effect Oct. 1 that overhaul towing and titling rules to ease vehicle retrieval, authorize Sunday hunting on private land with permission, allow municipalities to ban and impound vehicles used in street takeovers, and largely prohibit handcuffing children under 14. Florida's long-fought business rent tax on commercial leases is scheduled to be eliminated Oct. 1, a change projected to save businesses more than $1 billion annually. Oregon approved a nicotine-pouch tax to fund wildfire response and created a registry to let donor-conceived children access identifying information about sperm, egg or embryo donors.