Senate creates five-member committee to investigate July 4, 2025, Texas flooding

The Senate on the floor adopted a resolution creating a five-member committee to investigate the July 4, 2025, flooding events that resulted in significant loss of life and injuries across Texas, senators said.

Senator Flores, sponsor of Senate Resolution 2, said the committee will “take a deeper dive and a more comprehensive look at what happened, throughout the throughout Texas and the Hill Country in this flooding event.” The resolution directs the panel to examine “the facts and circumstances surrounding the flooding events which occurred on or about 07/04/2025.”

The resolution directs that five senators be appointed by the president of the Senate and that the president designate the chair and vice chair. It gives the committee “all the powers and duties and operate according to the procedures prescribed by Subchapter B, Chapter 301, Government Code, and the rules of the Senate as applicable,” language read into the record by the secretary.

Flores told colleagues the study aims to identify “what worked, what didn't work,” supplementing immediate actions taken earlier in a special session and providing information to guide work in the 90th Legislature. The resolution itself does not set a public reporting deadline or specify required deliverables beyond the directive to make a “complete and thorough examination.”

The chamber recorded the adoption on the record as six ayes and no nays; the chair announced the resolution adopted. The motion to create the committee was moved by Senator Flores and read into the record by the secretary.

The Senate also adopted a memorial resolution and remarks from Flores on the floor that described the flood’s human toll; Flores said more than 130 people died and referred to heavy losses in Kerr County and other Hill Country counties. Those memorial remarks were offered separately from SR 2 and were adopted by the chamber.