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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas Bill Requires Emergency Preparedness Plans and First Responder Notice for Youth Camps and High-Risk Activities
Last action · July 28, 2025: FiledSponsor: Barbara Gervin-Hawkins
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What This Bill Proposed
Relating to emergency preparedness requirements for youth camps, camps, and entities that provide high-risk activities for minors; authorizing a civil penalty.
Camp operators and youth activity providers must establish formal emergency procedures and coordinate with local emergency services or face state enforcement actions and financial penalties.
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.
Camp Operators and Youth Activity Entities
Operators must develop and submit emergency preparedness plans, notify local first responders prior to sessions, post informational signs, and maintain real-time communication capabilities and emergency access routes.
Local First Responders
Key Facts
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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- Jul 28, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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