On Friday morning, Texas Senator Charles Perry did not mince words about the immediate response to the July Fourth floods that ripped through Kerr County. Some of the measures in SB1 were a direct rebuke to the shortcomings lawmakers found in the county's response.

"All this stuff should already be in place," Perry said. "You should have already been doing this and it should have required very little additional resources."

The remarks came as Perry laid out SB1 in the Senate Committee on Disaster Preparedness and Flooding that morning.

SB1 is the Senate’s bill intended to address multiple “needs and challenges” revealed by the horrifying July Fourth flooding that left more than 130 dead across the State of Texas. Of those deaths, 108 happened in Kerr County alone.

"We found gaps in our

See Full Page