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The proposed $321 billion two-year Texas budget is expected to get a final vote today. Texas House and Senate budget writers put together the thousand-page plan over weeks of negotiations. The state budget makes use of a record surplus to fund tax cuts, the energy grid, colleges and universities, mental health, state parks, broadband, and water infrastructure. Budget leaders also released on Thursday a supplemental plan to spend $15 billion on various priorities in the current budget, which runs until the end of August.