New Laws in 2025
In the last year of full Democratic control, 185 different bills were signed into law. Still, the biggest change you're going to notice was not one of them. The minimum wage is set to increase twice this year, once this month and once next month. That's because the Supreme Court ruled back in late July that the legislature acted unconstitutionally when they voted to adopt and amend two ballot initiatives in the same session in 2018. As ususal, many laws enacted make absolutely no sense. Some are shown below.