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DALLAS -- Six weeks after a 3-year-old Argyle girl fell into a septic tank and died her family is going to Austin, hoping to prevent the same thing from happening to anyone else.

Alisandra Galvan's family is on a crusade to make sure she is the last child ever in Texas to die by falling into a septic system.

"From day one we've always called Ali our little angel, metaphorically, and now literally," said Ali's mother, Myla Galvan.

The family put together a DVD to take to Austin. Along with their lawyer, Jim Girards, the Galvans want to educate lawmakers about what happened to their little girl last month, soon after they moved into their new home in Argyle.

Ali fell through the lid covering the backyard septic tank. She fell 10 feet and drowned.

The family is pushing for legislation that would require anyone installing a septic system be held more accountable and that installers be bonded with insurance.

"If the law had been in place, then each person who came into contact with that septic system would have been incentivized to be competent, to do the job correctly, to dot the Is and cross the Ts," Girards said, "because this literally is a matter of life or death, especially to children who can fit through the small access."

And it has happened to other Texas toddlers.

Girards says two other young toddlers about the same age as little Ali died the exact same way.

"We want to make sure that we go out and say, 'hey,check your backyard. If you have kids, small dogs, whatever, watch your yard, pay attention this happened, this can happen to you,'" Myla Galvan said.

The Galvan family intends to meet with lawmakers on the environmental committee possibly as early as Monday night.

That committee is already considering a bill similar to what they are hoping for.

They're hoping to tack on their terminology and make this law before legislators actually convene in a matter of weeks.