AUSTIN — Lawmakers in the Texas House advanced a bill Thursday morning requiring youth camps to receive state approval for how they plan to respond to various emergencies, including floods, following the deadly Hill Country floods that took place last month.

"I promised her she would be safe and OK. I told her camp was the safest place she could be and camp was a place she could make new friends and learn new things," said her mother, Carrie Hanna. "She not only wasn't safe. She died." Hanna said she received very poor communication about what had happened to her daughter.

The hearing was held to discuss Senate Bill 1, aimed at improving preparedness and accountability for disaster procedures at youth camps in Texas

Wednesday's meeting of the Select Committee on Disaster Preparedness and Flooding is the public hearing for Senate Bill 1, which covers safety for both youth camps and campgrounds. According to the bill's author, it incorporates significant feedback from the families of children lost at Camp Mystic.

TEXAS – On Thursday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott is set to announce some funding that will help long-term support victims of the catastrophic July 4 Floods in Texas Hill Country.

Texas Monthly editor Aaron Parsley’s viral essay on losing his nephew in the July 4 floods moved thousands. Here's why he wrote it.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will be speaking in Kerrville to announce funding to support long-term relief following the deadly and devastating July 4th floods.

The parents of girls who lost their lives at Camp Mystic on July 4 will testify before the Texas Senate Disaster Preparedness and Flooding Select Committee in support of Senate Bill 1.

An unusually wet summer weather pattern is setting up across San Antonio this week with pockets of heavy rainfall possible.

Parents of the 27 campers and counselors killed when floodwaters rushed through a summer camp in Texas' Hill Country pleaded with lawmakers Wednesday to pass a bill that would boost camp safety.

Texas Governor Abbott celebrated the swift 29-day reconstruction and reopening of Cow Creek Bridge after floods.

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