After some pushback from camps over costs, an eleventh-hour Senate vote sends the “Heaven’s 27 Camp Safety Act” and a companion bill from the House to Gov. Greg Abbott.

Youth camps in Texas must now remove cabins from floodplains and operate emergency warning systems after a package of regulations passed late Wednesday night.

It comes after weeks of testimony from parents, emergency responders, and camp operators after devastating floods in the Texas Hill Country took the lives of more than 130 people, primarily in Kerr County. Among those lost: 27 girls from Camp Mystic. The parents of some of these children have been on a campaign to advocate for change at summer camps across the state.

The Texas government promised to take action at the start of the first special session. In the fina

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