Bill Text: TX HCR9 | 2025 | 89th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Calling for construction of a monument in the Texas State Cemetery in remembrance of those who perished in the July 4, 2025, Hill Country flood.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-08-18 - Filed [HCR9 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HCR9-Introduced.html
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| By: Raymond | H.C.R. No. 9 | |
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| WHEREAS, The catastrophic flooding in the Hill Country on | ||
| July 4, 2025, claimed the lives of more than 100 people; and | ||
| WHEREAS, One of the deadliest natural disasters in Texas | ||
| history, the flood occurred when summer humidity from the Gulf of | ||
| Mexico combined with tropical moisture remaining from two distant | ||
| storms, Hurricane Flossie in the Pacific Ocean and Tropical Storm | ||
| Barry in the Atlantic; a low pressure cell stalled out overnight, | ||
| pouring down 12 inches of rain, nearly double the volume of water | ||
| that flows over Niagara Falls in an entire day; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The Hill Country's steep terrain and rocky soil, | ||
| parched by a long drought, could absorb little of the torrent; the | ||
| Guadalupe River rose 27 feet in 45 minutes, sending a raging wall of | ||
| water toward people sleeping in cabins, tents, and RVs on lower | ||
| ground; rescuers were unable to reach scores of the endangered in | ||
| time, and among the fatalities were more than two dozen girls at | ||
| Camp Mystic, some as young as eight years old; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Across the state, Texans are mourning the terrible | ||
| loss of life, and it is fitting to acknowledge the inconsolable | ||
| sorrow of the survivors and the collective grief experienced by the | ||
| entire nation in the wake of this immense tragedy; now, therefore, | ||
| be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 89th Legislature of the State of Texas, | ||
| 2nd Called Session, hereby call for construction of a monument in | ||
| the Texas State Cemetery in remembrance of those who perished in the | ||
| July 4, 2025, Hill Country flood; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
| copies of this resolution to the Texas State Cemetery Committee and | ||
| the State Preservation Board. | ||
