More than 130 people killed for more than two weeks since the floods at Texas Hill Country, Texas MPs started a special legislative session today, with the aim of protecting funding recovery and future disasters.

In this spring they failed to pass a bill, which could increase the expenditure for emergency warning systems. Now for special committees of the House and Senate, the most flood area is planned to go to Kerville, Kerville, which, to hear about the need of local governments, local governments are needed.

They will be working while there will be uncertainty at the national level about the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Doubt an agency After the calls of members of the Trump administration that it is cut back or eliminated.

There were already plans for a special session this month on a completely different subject of laws to regulate the sales of ganja products. But Republican village. Greg Abbott, in Their proclamation calling Leaded with cases related to the session, floods.

And disaster relief was not all that he added to the session, which could last for 30 days. It also includes a list of controversial GOP priorities. They include re -inclusion of Congress’s polling districts in ways that will affect the mid -term elections of 2026 and tighten the laws against drug abortion. Some issues are at stake here.

Flood proposals are from new alert to reconstruction

Abbott is asking that MPs improved initial warning systems, strengthened communication infrastructure and recently provided relief money for flood affected areas.

In fact, for what MPs should do, one of the first ideas Republican Lt Gove Dan Patrick, Texas Senate leader, when they spoke, when they spoke, Fox News after the storm,

“If we had sirens above and below the region, then the same type of sirens that they have in Israel, when there is an attack which will be very loudly, is possible that it will save some of these lives.” Patrick said.

He wants the place to have a place till the next summer, when the youth destroyed in the flood will work again.

Bills already filed include proposals to tighten floods On security standards To make youth camps and one Flood disaster guide For voluntary organizations.

To hear from the flood victims themselves, the legalists are traveling to Kerville, Texas with the destroyed banks of the Guadalup River on 31 July.

Texas leaders have the support of Trump but FEMA’s future is not clear

A search and rescue team members visit a monument wall for flood victims in Kerville, Texas.

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The ability to help the state by the federal government – or not – will be the factor in the session. President Trump and the village Abbot Republican are associates and the state count on federal aid. In the call of Abbott for the session, he proposed to use state money to match the disaster relief grant from FEMA.

But Trump, and others in administration, Proposed elimination FEMA. Abbut is itself Criticism of agency And is on a council formed to replace it.

In June, Trump said that the agency needs, “Give less money.” But Texas’s Republican US Sen Ted Cruise said recently President Trump told him, “There is anything needed by Texas, the answer is yes.”

If Texas MPs trusted FEMA’s help, it could increase pressure to preserve the agency. But it is also likely that close Trump-Ebot Alliance may cause workarounds that send federal funds to Texas, while FEMA itself and other states are reduced to help the ability to help.

Texas and America may do more on flood management

Experts say that when MPs get together to detect options, they should not limit themselves to North America to find a solution. For the best examples, Upamanu Lol, director of Columbia Water Center at Columbia University, New York, says MPs should look abroad.

“China is installing sensors for rain, sensors for water depth in the road, sensor for water depth in sewer systems, and in rivers,” Lal said. He says that those sensors can send data back to emergency officers to give a real -time photo that is happening.

Along with focusing on floods in the hill country, there may be competition from other flood-prone areas where officials have been requesting money for years. The Texas Water Development Board published the State Flood Scheme in December. It ranks the needs of the state’s most important flood prevention, which will happen Overall cost of over $ 54 billion,

Houston Democratic State Rape. N Johnson is in the House Committee that works to find solutions for the affected areas. She says that meditation cannot be done just by addressing this one disaster.

“I think Kerville is a reminder that is one of the reasons that we need to receive this stuff and have been passed in preparation for the next program,” he said. “Because it is no longer a question whether Texas are going to suffer an extreme weather incident or not, it is just when,”

During a press conference, Abbott said, “We are going to work on every solution to ensure that such things do not happen again, not only in this community, but also in other river valleys across the state.”

But those solutions will have to fit within a large but still limited budget.

Rejuvenation, abortion drugs and local issues can carry forward time limit

There are some warm political issues compared to the maps that outline districts for members of the US House of Representatives and Abbott and say that in the two-do list of the session. It comes at the insistence of Trump. On Tuesday, he Told reporters at the White House He believes that redistribution may help the Republican take five seats in the upcoming midnight Congress elections.

Democratic State rape. Johnson feels that the attempt to redistribute outside the general 10 -year census cycle is illegal. “All this must worry about Texas. We are not in a revival cycle,” he said. Typically, census data is redistributed after early release in the decade.

Abbott has also asked MPs to tighten the state laws against the rights of abortion or, as the announcement states, “further protecting unborn children.” This incorporates proposals to make it easier to sue people or companies that send abortion medicines to the state.

The governor’s call also opens the door of the law that limit access to transgender people up to some “sex different places” like a bathroom or locker room.

And then the session was considered the root cause before the flood. This was to ban the sale of THC products to people under 21 years of age among other rules for the state’s bouncy ganja industry. Abbott veto a bill Ganja must have been banned Product lump sum.

Blaze Genny Kut and Texas covers politics for news rooms.