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.

Michael McCown sent his 8-year-old daughter Linnie to a summer camp in central Texas trusting she would be safe.

Between tears and anger, mothers and fathers of children who died at Camp Mystic in central Texas in a flood on July 4 pleaded with state lawmakers Wednesday to toughen safety at summer camps.

KERRVILLE, Texas — A new foundation called the Heaven’s 27 Fund looks to honor the legacies of the 27 campers and counselors who died during the July 4 floods at Camp Mystic.

You have a flash flood warning or a flood warning, you will be required to remove these kids from those cabins,” said state Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Disaster Preparedness and Flooding,

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.

Hunt Independent School district had over a month left until school was scheduled to start on August 20. But after devastating floods swept through Texas Hill Country on July 4, the district’s lone school,