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New Summer Camp Safety Laws Follow Texas’ Tragic Floods

The families of “Heaven’s 27,” the children and counselors lost at Camp Mystic, pressed the Legislature to toughen flood rules over the objections of some Hill Country camp operators.

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Gov. Greg Abbott discussing the new law, which includes a requirement for youth camps to move existing cabins away from dangerous floodplains.
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Gov. Greg Abbott Signs Controversial Redistricting Bill, Redrawing Congressional Map

After a bruising redistricting fight, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a new congressional map into law. But the Republican-led Legislature, newly emboldened, has not stopped there.

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The state’s new congressional map was one of many contentious issues on the agenda for the Texas Legislature’s special session.
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Texas Legislature Gives Final Approval to Redistricting Map Favoring Republicans

The map’s passage was a major victory in President Trump’s push to get Republican state leaders to help his party keep control of the U.S. House.

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The new lines on Texas’ congressional districts were drawn to deliver Republicans up to five U.S. House seats.
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Gavin Newsom’s Redistricting Ballot Fight Raises $6.2 Million Online

The figure makes plain how a gerrymandering push that began in Texas but spread nationwide has energized the Democratic base.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom, Democrat of California, has nicknamed his remapping effort the “Election Rigging Response Act,” arguing it is a counter to Texas’ pledge to redraw its map.
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Texas Senate Advances Redistricting as California Legislature Joins Race

Lawmakers in the nation’s two most populous states were voting Thursday on competing proposals as the battle over U.S. House maps intensified.

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Todd Hunter, a Republican state representative in Texas, with fellow Republican members of the State House of Representatives during a session at the Capitol in Austin on Wednesday.
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