Alyssa’s Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Owens, Burgess [R-UT-4]
Introduced
Summary
Expands the Federal Clearinghouse on School Safety to provide public education, research, training, and technology testing that would help prevent and respond to school emergencies. It would also create a National School Safety Data Center and set rules for panic alarm technology and emergency response maps.
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- Students, families, and schools would get new public education, tailored training and technical assistance, access to subject matter experts, and pilot projects. The Clearinghouse would sponsor research, testing, and experimentation and run a panic alarm technology development program to improve response times.
- First responders and local agencies would face stricter map standards and a funding bar. Starting in FY2026 federal funds could not buy noncompliant maps and procured maps would need real-time updates, interoperable formats, floor-level overlays, standardized symbology, authenticated APIs, U.S. storage, and annual local walk-through verification.
- Federal, State, and local planners would gain standardized data and regular oversight tools. The bill would require a National School Safety Data Center via SchoolSafety.gov within one year, annual Clearinghouse reports to Congress with analyses including appraisals of human and economic losses, and a nationwide master plan assessment within four years and then every year.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
National school safety data center
This bill would create a National School Safety Data Center on SchoolSafety.gov within one year. The Center would collect, standardize, and publish data on school emergencies, causes and trends, injuries and deaths, property losses, staff hazards, safety plans, and State laws. It would help States, schools, and law enforcement report and use common data and analyses.
New federal school safety clearinghouse
This bill would create a Federal Clearinghouse on School Safety to give schools and first responders research, training, and technical help. The Secretary would name a Director within 120 days and must act through that Director. The Clearinghouse would send an annual report to Congress starting by June 30 of the year after enactment. The bill would not give the Clearinghouse rulemaking power. The bill would also define key terms such as local educational agency and public safety answering point.
Panic alarm technology program
This bill would create a Panic Alarm Technology Program to develop, test, and demonstrate wearable alarms and related equipment for schools and first responders. The program would set standards, run demonstrations, and study cost‑effectiveness and deployment. The Secretary would be barred from manufacturing or selling equipment from the program except when needed to develop, test, or evaluate it.
Reports on master plans for shootings
This bill would require the Secretary to report on school shooting master plans not later than four years after enactment and then every year. Reports would review how many jurisdictions have master plans, the quality of those plans, and whether State, regional, or local approaches work better. Reports would include cost and benefit assessments and require master plans to include cost estimates and realistic financing plans.
New rules and funds for emergency maps
This bill would require a federal strategy, within one year, to buy and share emergency response maps for critical federally owned or leased sites and brief Congress within 180 days after that strategy. It would also bar federal funds starting in fiscal year 2026 from buying maps that do not meet strict technical and ownership rules. Maps must be digital, real‑time updatable, interoperable, orientable to true north, able to display any floor, shared by secure API, owned by the procurer, and stored only in U.S. data centers. Local educational agencies would have to verify maps annually by walk‑through and covered public safety agencies must get access after purchase.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Owens, Burgess [R-UT-4]
UT • R
Cosponsors
Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5]
NJ • D
Sponsored 12/17/2025
Rep. Diaz-Balart, Mario [R-FL-26]
FL • R
Sponsored 12/17/2025
Rep. Moskowitz, Jared [D-FL-23]
FL • D
Sponsored 12/17/2025
Rep. Gimenez, Carlos A. [R-FL-28]
FL • R
Sponsored 1/20/2026
Johnson (GA)
GA • D
Sponsored 1/20/2026
Davis (NC)
NC • D
Sponsored 2/11/2026
Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1]
PA • R
Sponsored 2/11/2026
Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7]
VA • D
Sponsored 3/19/2026
Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]
NE • R
Sponsored 3/19/2026
Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL-25]
FL • D
Sponsored 4/16/2026
Maloy
UT • R
Sponsored 4/16/2026
McBath
GA • D
Sponsored 4/30/2026
Rep. Wagner, Ann [R-MO-2]
MO • R
Sponsored 4/30/2026
Rep. Moore, Blake D. [R-UT-1]
UT • R
Sponsored 5/13/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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