Texas lawmakers plan to revisit legislation to improve emergency preparedness in the wake of last summer’s deadly floods — and they may try to prevent a summer camp at the center of the tragedy from reopening.
State legislative committees investigating the July 2025 disaster wrapped up a two-day hearing Tuesday, setting the table for a major policy debate that will spill into next year.
About 135 people died from the catastrophic floods over the July 4th weekend, including 119 in Kerr County along the Guadalupe River. Twenty-seven of the deaths occurred at Camp Mystic, a family-run summer camp for girls located on the river in south-central Texas.
The Texas Legislature passed bills during a special session last year that standardized training and staffing levels for summer camps and forbids the state from licensing camps that have cabins within 1,000 feet of floodways.
