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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas requires youth camps to implement emergency operations plans and staff training
Last action · August 4, 2025: FiledSponsor: Drew Darby
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What This Bill Proposed
Texas youth camp operators must develop, submit, post, and annually update written s covering natural disasters, fires, injuries, and security threats, while providing staff training and camper safety instructions. The bill also requires camps to maintain easily accessible communication tools and share evacuation procedures with local emergency management coordinators.
Camp operators must invest administrative resources into drafting, submitting, and posting comprehensive safety plans, while staff members must complete mandatory pre-session training on emergency procedures.
- The Health and Safety Code governs state standards for public health, safety, and specialized facilities such as youth camps. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
youth camp operators
Youth camp operators must develop, submit, post, and annually update written emergency operations plans, conduct staff training, and provide evacuation procedures to county coordinators.
youth camp staff and volunteers
Camp staff and volunteers must complete comprehensive pre-session training on emergency operations plans and execute specific assigned emergency responsibilities.
campers
Campers must receive instructions on fire, disaster, and evacuation procedures at the beginning of each camp session.
county emergency management coordinators
County emergency management coordinators must receive camp evacuation procedures annually for review and comment.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What must be included in a youth camp's emergency operations plan?
Who must review the youth camp's emergency operations plan?
When must camp staff receive training on the emergency operations plan?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the House.
Procedural history
1 action- Aug 4, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
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Mandatory Emergency Operations Plans for Youth Camps
Shifts youth camp regulations from general safety standards to requiring specific written, submitted, and posted emergency operations plans accompanied by mandatory staff training.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 60)
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz20Current news / social attention level
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