San Antonio city leaders were bracing for another brutal state legislative session this year, as Texas Republicans signaled plans to build on their 2023 Death Star bill and floated a host of ideas to further restrict municipal spending.

But when state lawmakers wrapped up their 140-day sprint on Monday, proposals to rein in cities’ borrowing authority , make it tougher to raise taxes and approve bond elections and prohibit changes to local election procedures were among the thousands of ideas that failed to gain traction.

“[This year] there were just as many, if not more, bad bills that would have hurt San Antonio,” Assistant City Manager Jeff Coyle said of the 89th Legislative Session. “But fortunately, the vast majority of them did not advance.”

Two years ago a flurry of

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