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

• The Texas House adopting its 2024-2025 budget with $300 billion in spending
• The attorneys of Daniel Perry, convicted for murder, seeking a retrial as Gov. Greg Abbott seeks a pardon
• The House committee hearing over school choice proposals, including education savings accounts
• A poll over different property tax reform plans drumming up controversy among Texas lawmakers
• Security Legislation Creating New ‘Illegal Entry’ Offense Advances in Texas Senate
• The fight over a new tax abatement program to succeed the now-expired Chapter 313
• A House hearing over a bill to require voter approval for all local government spending projects
• An look at how the boards that oversee state agencies are appointed and confirmed
• Contradictory rulings from Texas and Washington State over the abortion drug mifepristone
• The Texas Supreme Court staying contempt of court jail time for real estate developer Nate Paul