ALYSSA Act
Latest action · Feb 24, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 24, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
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.
Cosponsors 23
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 24, 2025 to Jul 13, 2026; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NC | Donald G. Davis | Original | Feb 24, 2025 |
| D-FL | Jared Moskowitz | Original | Feb 24, 2025 |
| R-TX | Tony Gonzales | Original | Feb 24, 2025 |
| D-GA | Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | Feb 27, 2025 | |
| D-TX | Sylvia R. Garcia | Feb 27, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Jim Costa | Mar 3, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Josh Harder | Mar 3, 2025 | |
| R-FL | Mario Diaz-Balart | Mar 3, 2025 | |
| R-NY | Michael Lawler | Mar 3, 2025 | |
| R-TX | Pat Fallon | Mar 3, 2025 | |
| D-MA | William R. Keating | Mar 3, 2025 | |
| R-PA | Brian K. Fitzpatrick | Mar 4, 2025 | |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Mar 6, 2025 | |
| D-HI | Jill N. Tokuda | Mar 6, 2025 | |
| D-GA | Lucy McBath | Mar 6, 2025 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Feb 24, 2025 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 24, 2025Introduced in House
- Feb 24, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 36, February 24, 2025, page H769.
Titles 4
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Title
- ALYSSA Act
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require silent alarms in elementary schools and secondary schools, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- ALYSSA Act
- Alyssa’s Legacy Youth in Schools Safety Alert Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 24, 2025Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
