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Texas will ask voters to approve $3 billion to study dementia

State lawmakers have been pushing the dementia fund for years, modeling it after a state fund for cancer research.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick at a press conference at the Capitol in Austin on April 23, 2025.


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