laws

Guns in schools? Drinking and driving? Leaving cars and homes unlocked? Smoking areas for high school students? Yep, all once totally normal in El Paso and Texas in general once upon a time.

Seriously, 3 bills are working their way through the system in Texas, each containing certain health mandates that prevent certain foods from being available to certain people, dictate school menus, require physical education classes and some new warning labels.

House Bill 4 brings enhanced data privacy rights for Texans online, reinforcing consumer protections and personal information control, effective January 2025.

Get to know the new laws before they take effect for 2025

Phrogging, a term for secretly living in someone else’s home without their knowledge, is a rare but unsettling phenomenon in Texas.

This caused a ripple of folks to start beekeeping with an increase of beekeepers from 1,851 in 2012, when the policy took effect, to 8,939 by 2022.

As of April 2024, after over a decade of Kei truck fans fighting for it, the mini trucks have officially been legalized by the state at motor vehicles.

As the temperatures start to get cooler I’m pretty sure that we're all guilty of one thing that we probably don’t know could land us in hot water – literally.

Sure, every bride dreams of their perfect wedding day and reception, but what about that bride that just wants to get married without all the pomp and circumstance?! Well, Texas has you covered. You can do it all without any ceremony, celebrant or expensive party.

There are many laws out there that get mixed up and turned around, leading to a widespread misunderstanding.

Hopefully, it never happens to you. Here's some information just in case.

September 1st, these laws will go into effect throughout the state of Texas.