Parents of young girls who died in last month's flooding in the Texas Hill Country were in Austin on Wednesday to testify about proposed flood safety legislation for camps and campgrounds.Wednesday's hearing was the first time parents of the victims spoke to the Legislature publicly.

Parents of some of the Camp Mystic campers who died in the July 4 Texas floods testified in front of Kerr County officials, giving tearful statements and demanding change.

"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.