The Associated Press AUSTIN — A major transportation funding plan and a new sentencing option for 17-year-olds convicted of capital murder advanced in the Texas Senate on Tuesday, as lawmakers looked to make quick work of those issues with major fights still to come over new abortion restrictions. The transportation and juvenile justice bills have widespread bipartisan support and were set to pass in the previous special session until they were wiped out as collateral damage of the Senate filibuster against the abortion measure. Both issues have been overshadowed in the new special session by legislation further restricting abortions, an issue that heated up again with...
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