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This week on The Texan’s Weekly Roundup, the team discusses: 

• The House passing a ban on biological males competing against women in intercollegiate sports
• The House’s version of the Senate’s property tax plan, featuring major changes 
• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sending state officers to Texas to address the border crisis
• Gov. Greg Abbott threatening a special session to pass school choice 
• The release of the Legislature’s conference committee on the state budget
• The Senate taking up a House bill to prohibit banks from specially tracking firearm purchases
• A Houston Democratic club censoring a lawmaker after she voted to ban child gender modification
• The Legislature sending its local government preemption bill to the governor’s desk
• Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick saying the Senate will not consider legalizing casinos and sports betting
• House members pushing forward an alternative plan to subsidizing natural gas power plants
• A bill to expand state surveillance on jewelry purchases criticized by civil liberties groups
• Texas lawmakers turning to procedural “points of order” to kill each other’s bills as session comes to close