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SLATON — In the final weeks of the legislative session, Texas lawmakers had a flurry of important and intense debates over property taxes, school funding and access to THC products.

And then there was state Rep. Carl Tepper ’s House Concurrent Resolution 135.

Was he serious? Did someone put him up to this, a fellow House member asked during debate. State Rep. Christian Manuel , D-Port Arthur, raised a parliamentary inquiry.

“Is the banana pudding really that good up there?” Manuel asked.

Tepper’s resolution was, in fact, about banana pudding. And House Speaker Dustin Burrows invited Manuel to try it and s

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