AUSTIN (KXAN)—Dozens of families packed inside a small room at the Texas Capitol Monday shared tragic stories — and where their lives now — after learning their daughters died in July floods at Camp Mystic.

"My anguish is as infinite as the stars in the sky...a black hole of pain," 8-year-old Virginia Hollis' mother said. "We don't know when she died, we don't know how, we really don't know anything...all we do know is our daughter was at camp, she was not protected, she was not safe."

After 27 campers and counselors were swept away by fast-rising water, lawmakers are looking to pass legislation to create uniform flood safety measures, protocols and standards. This, after Camp Mystic, along the Guadalupe River, has been criticized by parents and officials for not doing enough to keep kid

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