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More gun, vaccine laws coming in 2020
Elephants in foothills
African elephants walk through the Performing Animals Welfare Society’s ARK 2000 Sanctuary near San Andreas, Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law to take effect in 2020 banning most animals from circuses. The law exempts rodeos and does not apply to domesticated dogs, cats and horses.
In the midst of all the top hats, party horns and confetti that helped ring in the New Year, hundreds of new state laws also went into effect in California when the world welcomed 2020.