Texas Bill Would Require All Classrooms to Have a Panic Button
School safety advocates are pushing for this bill to pass.
I m someone that likes to keep an eye on what Bills are being brought worth over in Austin. I know not every single one is going to pass, but this one caught my eye today. House Bill 204 requires districts to implement a “multihazard emergency operations plan” based on guidelines set forth by the Texas School Safety Center, the governor’s office of homeland security and the state’s education commissioner.
The House Public Education Committee met earlier today on this proposed bill. Representative Shawn Thierry wrote the Bill and has named it Alyssa s Law. It is named after Floridian Alyssa Alhadeff who died in the Parkland high school shooting in 2018. “Our courts have more security, our state capitol has more security, our airports,” Thierry said. “How can we have our most vulnerable population be solid, so unprotected, in the event of a mass sho