Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 838, also known as Alyssa's Law, requiring all public and charter schools to install silent alert technology in classrooms by the 2025-26 school year.
. Alyssa's father and mother were among those at Tuesday’s bill signing with the governor.
"School safety is a layered approach. I think by increasing the age from 18 to 21 is one of those layers that will make a school safer, here in Texas. We did it in Florida and I believe we can do it here in Texas," said Lori Alhadeff.Gov. Greg Abbott signed some controversial education bills into law, including one to ban certain books in school libraries.
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