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The Texas Senate must approve the Houses changes before Gov. Greg Abbott can sign it into law.

The House approved a bill Monday that would ban doctors from providing transition-related care to children. It now heads back to the Senate, which can accept the changes or ask for a committee to iron out the chambers’ differences.

Texas would join more than a dozen other states that have already passed similar legislation recently.

She was one of four Democrats to support a ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

Three Texas Democrats broke party lines to join their Republican colleagues on a measure that would man gender-affirming care fore transgender youth.

The House gave initial approval to a bill that would ban doctors from providing transition-related care to children. This is the furthest point the measure has reached in the Legislature.

Pivotal House vote moves Texas closer to banning puberty blockers, hormone treatments for trans kids

The Texas House denied a normally routine request for a committee to meet Wednesday night to vote on Senate Bill 8, the education savings account bill

In the final weeks of the Texas Legislative Session, lawmakers will have to resolve differences between their school funding proposals.

AUSTIN — Texas House members passed a bill Thursday increasing pay for public school teachers and the basic allotment per student.