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New Georgia laws to take effect July 1st

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A slew of new laws passed during the last session of the General Assembly take effect July 1st.

Senate Bill 1 was the first item on the Republican-led state Senate’s agenda. It generally prohibits student athletes in private and public schools and colleges from competing in interscholastic and intercollegiate sports on teams that do not match their birth gender.

House Bill 111 and 112 provided an income tax cut and a taxpayer rebate.

House Bill 428 brought both parties together to support efforts to protect in vitro fertilization.

House Bill 340 means no more cellphones in public schools in the grades from kindergarten through middle schools but the law allows schools until the fall of next year to figure how to stop their students from using phones in school. The proponents of this ban on devices that are widely viewed as a distraction stopped short of prohibiting them in high schools. Ban backers said high schools could be next.

Smartphones and driver's licenses have been joined under House Bill 296, meaning you can store your license on your phone, but the law gives police two years to prepare.

Under House Bill 398, home bakers and other makers will be allowed to sell their goods online, by mail, in grocery stores and at restaurants this is generally limited to food that is stable without temperature control.

Senate Bill 241, which inspired a bit of uneasy humor at the Capitol. It allows the composting of human corpses and passed with huge bipartisan majorities.

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