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A bill signing ceremony in Austin

‘This will save lives’: New Texas laws require summer camps to remove cabins from floodplains

By Hannah Norton

Gov. Greg Abbott signed three bills into law Sept. 5, two months after 25 campers and two counselors died in the July 4 weekend flooding at Camp Mystic in Kerr County.

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