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Mental health advocates ask Texas lawmakers to replace expiring COVID-19 relief funding

Texas received $203.4 million in 2021 to help build community mental health programs at libraries and churches, among other efforts. Those funds expire Dec. 31.

Mental Health pamphlets at an office complex in Round Rock on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024.

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