AUSTIN, Texas — Dozens of new Texas laws will take effect in December and January, bringing wide-ranging 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 mid-decade 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 busi

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