Lawmakers serving on special committees investigating deadly floods blasted a river authority for failing to build a flood warning system on the Guadalupe River.

The Legislature will look at proposals for emergency preparedness in a special session that was already planned over hemp laws. A bill to help build emergency systems failed in the spring.

A bipartisan panel of Texas House and Senate lawmakers were scheduled to hear from at least 17 state and local leaders during a July 23 hearing about the state’s response to the July 4-5 flooding in Central Texas.

Congress should be demanding accountability from FEMA. Instead they're going on vacation. A short hearing by the House Transportation Committee offered little insight into what went wrong in Texas.

Texas lawmakers’ inaction on flood prevention often hits rural and economically disadvantaged communities the hardest, experts said.

Texas lawmakers start a 30-day special session July 21. They will tackle consumable THC, flood dangers, redistricting, abortion pills and other conservative priorities.