Relating to emergency evacuation instruction and notice requirements for youth camps.
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HB 86 — Relating to emergency evacuation instruction and notice requirements for youth camps.
Last action — Referred to Disaster Preparedness & Flooding
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✓Introduced
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2In Committee
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3Passed House
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4Passed Senate
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5To Executive
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6Enacted
This bill is in committee in the House. Introduced August 15, 2025. It must pass committee before a floor vote.
Next likely step: a committee vote, then a floor vote in the House.
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This bill amends 1 section(s) of the Texas statutes: Section 141.009, Health and Safety Code.
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Section 141.009, Health and Safety Code
(a) (b) In establishing health and safety standards under Subsection (a), the executive commissioner by rule shall require a youth camp to: (1) post on or near all interior doors of each camp building that provides overnight accommodations to campers, at a height easily visible to campers and camp staff, an emergency evacuation and relocation map identifying: (A) the shortest and easiest route for campers and camp staff from the building to a safe meeting point that provides shelter in an emergency; (B) an alternative route from the building to the meeting point in the event the route described by Paragraph (A) is unavailable due to the emergency; and (C) the location of emergency equipment; and (2) provide instruction to all campers and camp staff before the first overnight stay of a camping session on: (A) the routes to the camp's safe meeting point; (B) the location of the camp's emergency equipment; (C) the location of the camp's emergency evacuation and relocation maps; and (D) implementation and use of the emergency evacuation and relocation maps.
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Action History
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Referred to Disaster Preparedness & Flooding
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Read first time
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Filed
Sponsors
- Ward Johnson · Primary
Sponsorship breakdown
Export CSV (upgrade) →1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 183 not signed on
Sponsors (1)
Co-sponsors (0)
None.
Not signed on (183)
183 members have not signed on to this bill.
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- HB 86 is sponsored by Ward Johnson.
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- This bill is in committee in the House. Introduced August 15, 2025. It must pass committee before a floor vote.
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