We pass many laws in the state Legislature during session; however, some enacted laws have delayed effective dates. Please see below for the new laws that take effect this month.<\/p>\n
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Effective Date<\/strong><\/td>\n| Chapter<\/strong><\/td>\n | Summary<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n\n | 9\/1\/2026<\/td>\n | Ch. 37 of 2026<\/p>\n | Requires contractors and subcontractors performing construction work for covered renewable energy systems to have apprenticeship agreements.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/1\/2026<\/td>\n | Ch. 59 of 2026<\/p>\n | Part K<\/p>\n Provides for the taxation of alternative nicotine products.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/1\/2026<\/td>\n | Ch. 59 of 2026<\/p>\n | Part R<\/p>\n Allows certain commercial vessel operators to submit Petroleum Business Tax filings annually.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/4\/2026<\/td>\n | Ch. 206 of 2026<\/p>\n | \u00a72<\/p>\n Requires owners and operators of cooling towers to notify the health department and disinfect towers as soon as possible upon test results that indicate mitigation is required.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/18\/2026<\/td>\n | Ch. 618 of 2025<\/p>\n | Requires hospitals to establish a violence prevention program which includes a workplace safety and security assessment and a safety and security plan that addresses threats or hazards.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/24\/2026<\/td>\n | Ch. 55 of 2026<\/p>\n | Part AA<\/p>\n Requires the superintendent of state police to develop a critical incident paid leave policy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/26\/2026<\/td>\n | Ch. 414 of 2025<\/p>\n | Requires documents utilized by state agencies, public authorities and municipalities to replace the term “emotionally disturbed person” with the term “person experiencing an emotional crisis.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n | <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We pass many laws in the state Legislature during session; however, some enacted laws have delayed effective dates. Please see below for the new laws that take effect this month. Effective Date Chapter Summary 9\/1\/2026 Ch. 37 of 2026 S.8752\/A.9454 Ch. 362 of 2025 A.2730-A\/S.4881-A Requires contractors and subcontractors performing construction work for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/mcdonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/mcdonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/mcdonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/mcdonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/mcdonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/mcdonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3936,"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/mcdonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions\/3936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/mcdonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/mcdonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/mcdonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |