"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.

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.

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

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.

The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country has a four-pronged recovery plan: rebuilding homes, supporting mental health, economic recovery, and reviving the area’s quality of life.

Austin Dixon, CEO of the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country said $40 million has been committed toward a new housing fund as part of their long-term recovery plan. Construction is reportedly going on now.

Gov. Greg Abbott spoke in Kerrville and helped announce funding to support long-term relief following the July 4 floods. During the conference, the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country announced it would contribute $40 million toward a new housing fund.

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.

Parents whose children were among 27 killed at Camp Mystic on Texas' Guadalupe River during the Fourth of July flash flooding are scheduled to testify.

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