AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Senate Select Committee for Disaster Preparedness & Flooding voted Friday to advance four bills out of committee, including the special session's Senate Bill 1, which Committee Chair Sen. Charles Perry laid out in the hearing.

"Over the past three weeks, our committee convened in two joint hearings and took over 26 hours of invited and public testimony," said Perry, R-Lubbock. "SB 1 is the primary product of the work we performed over the last few weeks ... the bill is comprehensive, omnibus legislation that addresses many of the concerns that have been brought to the committee's attention since July 4th."

SB 1 contains a collection of changes to how state agencies, campgrounds and volunteer groups will need to prepare and respond to flooding.

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