Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s day by day publication that keeps readers up to velocity on the most essential Texas news. Lawmakers in the Texas Senate have revised a Gov. Greg Abbott-backed bill that would restrict land possession by entities from China and three other nations around the world, softening the language to still enable dual citizens and lawful long term residents of the United States to acquire property in Texas. Senate Monthly bill 147 initially sought to ban the sale of Texas land to citizens, governments and entities from China, Iran, North Korea or Russia, drawing months of outcry. The bill’s writer, Brenham Republican Sen. Lois…