Every entry checked against the statute, or shown to have no statute behind it.
It is not law. Alabama House Bill 72 passed the House on January 29, 2026, then sat in the Senate Judiciary Committee until the regular session adjourned on April 9, 2026. Its October 1, 2026 start date would only have applied if it had been enacted, so nothing took effect.
No. A search of the North Dakota Legislative Council's Century Code index turns up no provision linking being asleep and wearing shoes, and none of the lists that repeat the claim cite a section number. The state's real sleeping-room hygiene rules bind the people who run lodging establishments, not the guests in the beds.
Tunisian businesses are legally required to display prices and must include Arabic on commercial signage and product labels — with fines of up to 2,000 dinars for non-compliance. However, the claim that French must also be displayed alongside Arabic is a mischaracterization: the law mandates Arabic, not a French-Arabic bilingual requirement.
No. Washington never passed a House or Senate Bill 626, and no state law requires drivers to have a destination. The claim spread in May 2026 through AI-made fake notices bearing Gov. Bob Ferguson's name, and Washington numbers House bills from 1000, so a bill 626 cannot exist.
True. Massachusetts General Laws chapter 264, section 9 makes it an offence to play, sing or render the Star Spangled Banner in a public place other than as a whole and separate composition, or as dance music, an exit march or part of a medley, with a fine of not more than one hundred dollars. The 1917 statute is still on the books.
France did make every driver carry an unused breathalyser from 1 July 2012, but the promised fine was postponed twice and deleted on the morning it was due to start, and the obligation itself was repealed on 22 May 2020. No French driver has to carry one today.
No German law classifies a pillow as a weapon, passive or otherwise. 'Passive weapon' (Schutzwaffe) is a real legal term, but it means protective gear such as helmets and shields banned at demonstrations; the only pillow ruling on record is a 2014 Federal Court of Justice case in which a pillow pressed over a victim's face for a minute was treated as a dangerous instrument because of how it was used.
Hawaii's Act 96 of 2025 added 0.75 percentage points to the state's transient accommodations tax, marketed as the nation's first 'Green Fee' for climate resilience. The rate hike is real, but the money legally flows into the general fund and only about a third is directed to climate adaptation.
The claim that it is illegal to keep a donkey in a bathtub in Georgia is a fabricated legal myth with no basis in any Georgia statute, ordinance, or regulation. No equivalent law has been found in any other U.S. state either.
Minnesota banned cryptocurrency kiosks (Bitcoin ATMs) statewide under SF 3868, signed May 5, 2026. All machines had to go offline by August 1, 2026, and be physically removed from public locations by December 31, 2026. Minnesota was the third state to enact a full ban, after Indiana (March 2026) and Tennessee (April 2026) — though it was the first state to regulate kiosks, back in 2024. The law followed 134 scam complaints and nearly $1 million in reported Minnesotan losses over three years.
Since January 1, 2026, California law requires all commercially sold corn masa flour (masa harina) to contain 0.7 mg of folic acid per pound — making California the first U.S. state to mandate this fortification. The law targets a persistent birth-defect gap in Latino communities.
Minnesota became the first U.S. state to ban websites and apps that use AI to generate sexually explicit images of real, identifiable people without their consent. The law took effect August 1, 2026, and carries civil penalties of up to $500,000 per violation.