KERR COUNTY, Texas — A group of Texas state lawmakers is set to visit Camp Mystic on Monday as part of a general investigating committee focused on the July 2025 floods.

The committee consists of five Texas state representatives: Chairman Morgan Meyer (R-Dallas), Vice Chairman Joe Moody (D-El Paso), State Rep. Drew Darby (R-San Angelo), State Rep. Paul Dyson (R-Bryan), and State Rep. Erin Gámez (D-Brownsville).

Both the Texas House and Senate leadership announced the creation of the committees last fall.

“As Texans work to rebuild and recover, it is the responsibility of the legislature to understand what went wrong and ensure our state is better prepared for future emergencies,” Speaker Dustin Burrows said in a statement at the time.

The visit is set to be limited to lawmakers and their staff, as a temporary restraining order (TRO) granted by a Travis County judge currently limits access to the site as the camp faces pending lawsuits.

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The committee’s visit could influence legislation when lawmakers return to Austin in 2027.

“We won’t see any direct legislation proposed by this committee, but I would have every expectation that there will be some follow-through in the next session, particularly given how much conflict that there’s been around the legislation that was proposed and passed in the 2025 special sessions,” said James Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin.

Camp Mystic is currently planning to reopen next month despite calls by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick for the Department of State Health Services to deny a license to the camp until investigations are complete.

DSHS and the Texas Rangers are currently investigating the camp’s response to the July floods.

This week, camp directors testified under oath in a Travis County courtroom during a three-day evidentiary hearing.

The hearing focused on the preservation of evidence and camp leadership’s preparation for and response to the catastrophic flood that killed 27 young campers and counselors.

Camp directors testified that they did not expect the water levels to rise as quickly as they did, but also did not make calls to 9-1-1 or attempt to evacuate children from cabins until 3 a.m., despite a flash flood warning by the National Weather Service just after 1 a.m.

“There were several able-bodied people, including nurses and first responders, available to go cabin to cabin to evacuate these girls, and that didn’t happen,” Jennie Getten, mother of 9-year-old flood victim Ellen Getten, told CNN on Thursday.

Camp Mystic’s attorneys argue the flood was completely unpredictable.

“The tragedy is the water was coming from behind them, from a creek that had never flooded like this before, and you can see in the videos the direction of that water that is trapping everybody in the Twins 1 and 2, in the other cabin where all these girls died,” Camp Mystic attorney Mikal Watts told CNN.

Camp leadership testified that the families of over 800 girls have enrolled in the camp this summer. Only Camp Mystic Cypress Lake is set to open; the camp neighboring the Camp Mystic Guadalupe campus, where the deadly flooding occurred.