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Child pornography laws in Washington were updated in 2019 under the Responsible Teen Communications Act (House Bill 1742), [229] which stipulated that people under the age of 18 would not face charges for possessing nudes of themselves; [230] possessing or distributing sexual images of another person aged 13 to 17 would be a misdemeanor; [230 ...
The age of consent is the age at or above which a person is considered to have the legal capacity to consent to sexual activity. Both partners must be of legal age to give consent, although exceptions to the age of consent law exist in some jurisdictions when the minor and their partner are within a certain number of years in age or when a minor is married to his/her partner.
Tornadoes spawned by severe weather in Texas and Louisiana cause at least five deaths and over 17,000 power outages. [6] A Texas semi truck driver with no criminal record is arrested and faces 4 counts of vehicular homicide after he told police his brakes were failing on I-70 as it descended from the mountains in Colorado and caused a 28 ...
A Sept. 15 Threads post (direct link, archive link) includes side-by-side images of students wearing “Texas State” T-shirts and a woman holding a pride flag.
In March 2021, Texas courts have fully recognized that LGBT individuals have employment protections, based on the 2020 Bostock v. Clayton County Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) legal precedent. [101] In 2022, Texas became a plaintiff in a federal lawsuit to overturn some LGBT protections on Constitutional grounds. [102]
Gov. Greg Abbott sent a letter to the Texas Education Agency — which oversees Texas K-12 schools — and another to universities in May ordering them to “ignore” the “illegal” new rules ...
A Texas school district that removed the Bible over a new law banning “sexually explicit” material has backtracked — after being told it was both wrong and “likely illegal” to strip it ...
15 16 With parental consent, a person can marry at 16. A person who is 15 can marry with parental consent and judicial approval. [46] [50] Idaho: 18 16 [46] 18 With parental consent, a person can marry at 16 or 17, but only if there is no more than a three-year age gap between the two parties. [46] Illinois [49] 18 16 [46] 17