{"id":173824,"date":"2026-01-01T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/new-2026-texas-laws-take-effect-reshaping-immigration-taxes-evictions-and-ai-oversight\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:45:08","slug":"new-2026-texas-laws-take-effect-reshaping-immigration-taxes-evictions-and-ai-oversight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/new-2026-texas-laws-take-effect-reshaping-immigration-taxes-evictions-and-ai-oversight\/","title":{"rendered":"New 2026 Texas laws take effect, reshaping immigration, taxes, evictions and AI oversight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/2026-texas-laws-immigration-taxes-evictions-artificial-intelligence\/\">New 2026 Texas laws take effect, reshaping immigration, taxes, evictions and AI oversight<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/2026-texas-laws-immigration-taxes-evictions-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/2026-texas-laws-immigration-taxes-evictions-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-01 17:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cbsnews.com\">www.cbsnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>ICE Cooperation Requirement for County Jails<\/strong>: Texas county jails must now cooperate with federal immigration authorities via the 287(g) program, enabling local deputies to enforce federal immigration laws, sparking debates over local responsibilities and costs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Business Inventory Tax Exemption Expanded<\/strong>: House Bill 9 exempts up to $125,000 of business personal property, including inventory, from local property taxes to provide tax relief for small businesses.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Faster Eviction Process for Squatters<\/strong>: Senate Bill 38 shortens timelines for courts to process eviction cases involving squatters, aiming to expedite property regaining but raising concerns over reduced tenant protections.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Guardrails for Artificial Intelligence<\/strong>: House Bill 149 establishes regulations for the use of AI by state agencies and contractors, focusing on transparency, bias reduction, and accountability to foster innovation while mitigating risks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New 2026 Texas laws take effect, reshaping immigration, taxes, evictions and AI oversight https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/2026-texas-laws-immigration-taxes-evictions-artificial-intelligence\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/01\/01\/635f11e7-51fb-4755-a0e4-62ded95651ac\/thumbnail\/1200x630\/8820b3b4d3df59411bd943975e0c10c9\/cbstexas-new-texas-laws-2026.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-173824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173826,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173824\/revisions\/173826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}