AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Youth camp representatives faced state lawmakers Wednesday to propose, and push back on, some ideas aimed at making sites safer following the deadly July 4 Hill County flooding.

"Should one of the standards be that you just don't have overnight accommodations in the flood plain?," asked Rep. Cody Vasut, R-Angleton, during a morning meeting of the House Culture, Recreation and Tourism Committee meeting.

"That is certainly one way, if there's no bunk houses in the flood plain, that you've mitigated that particular risk," responded Dr. Timothy Stevenson with the Texas Department of State Health Services, which has oversight over camps. "In a very firm way."

Steve Baskin, who owns a camp in Marble Falls and is board chair of the American Camp Association, pushed back.

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