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

• The Texas House preparing for “budget night” and the hundreds of proposed amendments from lawmakers
• New developments in the murder trial of Army Sgt. Daniel Perry who shot a protester in 2020
• A House committee approving ballot measures to legalize sports betting and permit several casinos in Texas
• The Senate voting for a cost-of-living adjustment and lump-sum payment for retired teachers in Texas
• The Senate passing a ban on child gender modification, which will now proceed to the House
• The Texas Hospital Association opposing a bipartisan bill to require itemized billing for patients
• The Texas Education Agency intervening in Austin ISD to oversee its “noncompliant” special education program
• The Texas DPS seizing 70 pounds of methamphetamine in Austin on the first day of its partnership with APD
• The district attorney of Nueces County facing calls for his removal over “incompetency”
• A federal judge returning twelve “inappropriate” books to public library bookshelves in Llano County