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(NewsNation) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott volition motion 2 campy information bills into instrumentality Friday morning, a effect to devastating 4th of July floods successful cardinal Texas.
More than 100 radical were killed successful the flooding, including 27 campers and counselors from Camp Mystic, located on the Guadalupe River.
The country is location to galore summertime camps, and information was a absorption for legislators who held a peculiar league that addressed flood response arsenic 1 of the main issues.
House Bill 1 requires camps to taxable exigency plans to the state, bid unit connected flood emergencies and instal informing systems.
Senate Bill 1 prohibits cabins successful floodplains, requires cabins to show evacuation routes, and to person ladders to entree the roof.
Leaders successful Kerr County, which was hardest deed by the flooding, have spoken retired to entity to the Senate bill, stating that moving cabins retired of floodplains is excessively costly and volition unit camps to close.
