On Thursday, many of the girls’ parents were in the gallery of the Texas House chamber, listening to their names being read aloud before lawmakers voted 136-1 on a bill designed to meet the parents’ demands to make camps safer,

"I promised her she would be safe and OK. I told her camp was the safest place she could be and camp was a place she could make new friends and learn new things," said her mother, Carrie Hanna. "She not only wasn't safe. She died." Hanna said she received very poor communication about what had happened to her daughter.

Michael McCown sent his 8-year-old daughter Linnie to a summer camp in central Texas trusting she would be safe.