Texas lawmakers OK budget but 'bathroom bill' still in limbo

 


AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas will keep spending $800 million on border security while putting little new money into public schools, maintaining therapy cuts for disabled children and easing handgun license fees as the Republican-led Legislature approved a new state budget Saturday.

The $217 billion spending bill sent to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott will likely be a quiet footnote to a rancorous legislative session that ends Monday — upended by a "bathroom bill" targeting transgender people and an immigration crackdown on so-called "sanctuary cities."

The tensions simmered into the final weekend a...



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