Alyssa’s Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Owens
Introduced
Summary
Expands the Federal Clearinghouse on School Safety to centralize evidence‑based tools, data, and technology for preventing and responding to school emergencies. It also creates programs for panic‑alarm testing, a national school safety data center, and strict technical rules for emergency response maps.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.
National school safety data center
This bill would require creation of a National School Safety Data Center on SchoolSafety.gov within one year. The Data Center would collect and standardize data on school emergencies, injuries, deaths, property losses, and types of safety plans. It would help States, LEAs, and law enforcement report consistent data and would publish analyses and priorities to guide prevention and response.
New school safety programs and alarm rules
This bill would let the Department of Homeland Security run an expanded Clearinghouse to fund research, tests, demonstrations, and training to prevent and respond to school emergencies. The Clearinghouse would hire experts, give individualized technical help to schools and first responders, and target assistance to rural and remote areas. It would create a program to develop, test, and evaluate wearable panic alarm devices and related equipment. The Secretary would have to appoint a Clearinghouse Director within 120 days, and the Secretary would be barred from making or selling alarm equipment except to the extent needed for testing or evaluation.
Master plan and annual reports
This bill would require the Secretary to send Congress an annual Clearinghouse report starting by June 30 the year after enactment. The report would summarize research, technology work, assistance given, and estimates of human and economic losses from school shootings. The Secretary would also start a separate annual report on master plans not later than four years after enactment, reviewing plan quality, costs and benefits, and which approaches work best in different jurisdictions.
Emergency map standards and procurement
This bill would bar use of Federal funds in fiscal year 2026 and after to buy emergency response maps that do not meet detailed technical and access rules. Compliant maps must be digital, work on common devices, support real-time updates, be interoperable and printable, use standard symbology, let the site owner copy and share the map, only share data via secure APIs, and not store data outside the United States. The Secretary would have one year to produce a strategy to buy and distribute compliant maps for Federal critical sites and must brief Congress within 180 days after that strategy is sent. Local educational agencies would need to verify each site's map annually by walkthrough.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Owens
UT • R
Cosponsors
Gottheimer
NJ • D
Sponsored 12/17/2025
Diaz-Balart
FL • R
Sponsored 12/17/2025
Moskowitz
FL • D
Sponsored 12/17/2025
Gimenez
FL • R
Sponsored 1/20/2026
Johnson (GA)
GA • D
Sponsored 1/20/2026
Davis (NC)
NC • D
Sponsored 2/11/2026
Fitzpatrick
PA • R
Sponsored 2/11/2026
Vindman
VA • D
Sponsored 3/19/2026
Bacon
NE • R
Sponsored 3/19/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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