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

• Former Gov. Rick Perry’s exclusive interview with The Texan on school choice
• A House committee hearing testimony on a bill to legalize sports betting and some casinos
• The House passing a bill to eliminate sales taxes on feminine hygiene products
• The divide between House Democrats over a bill to remove “sexually explicit” books from public school libraries
• Former President Trump criticizing his rival Ron DeSantis at his Waco rally
• The movement of bills on transgender athletes in women’s sports and child gender modification
• U.S. Senators from Texas Ted Cruz and John Cornyn working on designating a new interstate highway
• The ongoing case of Army Sgt. Daniel Perry who shot and killed an Austin protester in 2020
• The Austin Police Department’s new departures this month amid its existing attrition
• The Texas DPS sending troopers to alleviate the stress of Austin’s police staffing crisis
• A Texas man facing over a century in prison and a $4 million fine for COVID-19 loan fraud
• Carroll ISD voting to leave the Texas Association of School Boards