On Thursday, many of the girls’ parents held each other in the galleries of the Texas House and Senate, listening to their names being read aloud before lawmakers in both chambers voted on bills designed to meet the parents’ demands to make camps safer,

Parents of some of the Camp Mystic campers who died in the July 4 Texas floods testified in front of Kerr County officials, giving tearful statements and demanding change.

Texas lawmakers are considering a list of bills aimed at better preparing communities for the kind of historic flood that claimed so many lives on July 4.