AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Lt. Governor Dan Patrick have already said there needs to be a siren warning system in Kerr County by next summer to prevent another catastrophic flood from again taking lives. The July Fourth flood killed 117 people in Kerr County alone.

SB2 is the bill that would make that happen.

SB 2 would require counties to build the kind of siren systems state leaders want to see and create a funding source to quickly pay for those systems. The bill was already listed as one of Lt. Governor Dan Patrick's priorities for this special session.

On Friday, a senate committee passed it and sent it to the Texas Senate floor with a recommendation.

The current version of the bill would give power to the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) to "require th

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