The Texas Legislature adjourned yesterday from a two-day special session.

In the short recall they passed a bill to keep five important state agencies operating for the next two years. They also passed a bill allowing the state to spend $2 billion in bonds to build new roads. The road bonds were approved by voters statewide in 2007 but the state still needed to authorize the spending. The only other bill considered would have allowed the state to continue contracting for privately built toll roads, but it never made it out of committee.