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Alyssa's Legacy Youth in Schools Safety Alert Act or the ALYSSA Act
This bill requires each local educational agency (LEA), as a condition of receiving federal elementary and secondary education funds, to ensure that each elementary and secondary school served by the LEA is equipped with at least one silent panic alarm for use in a school security emergency.
People & committees
Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5] · D–NJ
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-02-24 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
The proposed ALYSSA Act would require local education agencies receiving funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to equip every elementary and secondary school they serve with at least one silent panic alarm. The alarm would be manually activated to signal an emergency requiring a law enforcement response. The proposal would make this equipment a condition of receiving those federal funds.
This Act may be cited as the Alyssa’s Legacy Youth in Schools Safety Alert Act or the ALYSSA Act.
As a condition of receipt of funds under this Act, each local educational agency shall ensure that each elementary school and secondary school served by such local educational agency is equipped with at least one panic alarm
the term panic alarm means a silent security system signal generated by the manual activation of a device intended to signal a life-threatening or emergency situation requiring a response from law enforcement.
The bill would add a requirement to the existing local education agency plan provisions: agencies must ensure each school they serve is prepared for a school security emergency, including through panic alarms.
(a) Local educational agency plans Section 1112(c) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6312(c)) is amended—
(8) ensure that each school served by the local educational agency is prepared to address a school security emergency, including through the use of panic alarms (as defined in section 8549D).
The funding condition would place responsibility on each local education agency to ensure that every elementary and secondary school it serves has at least one panic alarm. The specified uses include non-fire evacuations, lockdowns, and active shooter situations.
As a condition of receipt of funds under this Act, each local educational agency shall ensure that each elementary school and secondary school served by such local educational agency is equipped with at least one panic alarm for use in a school security emergency (including a non-fire evacuation, lockdown, or active shooter situation).
For both requirements, a panic alarm would mean a silent security signal produced when someone manually activates a device intended to signal a life-threatening or emergency situation requiring law enforcement.
For purposes of this section and section 1112(c)(8), the term panic alarm means a silent security system signal generated by the manual activation of a device intended to signal a life-threatening or emergency situation requiring a response from law enforcement.
The supplied action snapshot, updated July 14, 2026, records introduction in the House and referral to the House Committee on Education and Workforce on February 24, 2025.
Source snapshot updated 2026-07-14T08:06:43Z. 2025-02-24: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. 2025-02-24: Introduced in House
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