Status: Pending — Introduced December 11, 2025 in the 119th Congress (2025-2026) by Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT-04), with original cosponsors Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-05), Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL-26), and Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL-23). Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce, with additional referrals to Judiciary, Homeland Security, and Oversight and Government Reform. The bill remains in committee as of May 2026.

Bill Number: H.R. 6809 (119th Congress, 2025-2026)

Jurisdiction: Federal (United States)

Category: School Safety, Panic Alarm Technology, Federal Coordination, Emergency Mapping

Industries: K-12 Education, Higher Education, School Safety Technology Providers, Public Safety

Enacted Date: N/A — Pending committee action

Effective Date: TBD upon enactment

Summary: H.R. 6809, the Alyssa's Act of 2025, is the broader federal companion to the long-standing ALYSSA Act (H.R. 1524). Where H.R. 1524 focuses narrowly on a nationwide silent panic alarm framework for K-12 schools, H.R. 6809 takes a system-level approach to federal school safety infrastructure. The bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to expand the federal school safety clearinghouse, create a new National School Safety Data Center, support federal research and testing of panic alarm devices that staff can wear to instantly contact first responders, and set accuracy, shareability, and U.S.-data-storage standards for school digital emergency maps purchased with federal funds. The bill is named in memory of Alyssa Alhadeff, killed in the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, and was filed federally with the active support of Make Our Schools Safe and the Alhadeff family.

Key Provisions:

Federal School Safety Clearinghouse Expansion: Directs the Department of Homeland Security, in coordination with partner agencies, to expand the existing federal school safety clearinghouse so school districts have a single, authoritative source for evidence-based safety practices, technology evaluation, and grant program information.
National School Safety Data Center: Establishes a federal data center to aggregate de-identified school safety incident data across the country, enabling national-scale trend analysis, threat pattern recognition, and evidence-based policy.
Panic Alarm Research and Testing: Directs the federal government to research, test, and evaluate panic alarm technologies (including wearable devices) that allow school staff to instantly contact 911 and trigger campus-wide notifications, with the goal of producing federally validated technical standards.
Digital Emergency Map Standards: Sets federal standards for school digital emergency maps purchased with federal funds, requiring that such maps be accurate, easily shareable with law enforcement and first responders, and stored in the United States rather than on offshore infrastructure.
Multi-Committee Jurisdiction: The bill's multi-committee referral — Education and Workforce, Judiciary, Homeland Security, and Oversight — reflects the cross-cutting nature of the school safety framework it would create.

Relationship to the Federal ALYSSA Act (H.R. 1524): H.R. 6809 and H.R. 1524 are complementary federal vehicles, both filed in the 119th Congress and both originating from the Alhadeff family's national advocacy. H.R. 1524 is the narrower panic-alarm-focused bill modeled on the New Jersey state Alyssa's Law template. H.R. 6809 is the broader system-level bill that creates federal data, research, and standards infrastructure to support school safety nationally. Neither has been enacted as of May 2026; both remain pending in committee. Stakeholders should monitor both vehicles as either could move on its own or be incorporated into a larger education or homeland security package.

Affected Entities: U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Department of Education, federal partner agencies, all public K-12 school districts receiving federal funds, school safety technology vendors selling federally funded products (especially panic alarms and digital mapping providers), and state and local law enforcement coordinating with school emergency response.

Compliance Outlook: H.R. 6809 is currently a planning and infrastructure bill rather than a compliance mandate — school districts would not face new direct obligations from the bill itself. The bill's most operationally significant downstream effect would be the federal standards work for digital emergency maps and panic alarm devices, which over time would shape the procurement specifications school districts use to qualify federal grant spending. Districts and vendors should treat the bill as an early signal that federal procurement standards for school safety technology are tightening, with U.S. data-residency requirements and law-enforcement-shareability requirements emerging as baseline expectations.

IntelliSee Relevance: High. H.R. 6809 reinforces the federal direction toward integrated, standards-based school safety technology — the same direction state Alyssa's Law statutes, school weapons detection grant programs, and the K-12 sector overall have moved. IntelliSee's AI gun detection on existing CCTV infrastructure provides a detection layer that operates upstream of any staff-activated panic alarm: a brandished firearm is surfaced automatically the moment it appears on camera, before a person needs to press a button. The platform's privacy-preserving architecture (no facial recognition, no biometric identification) aligns with the federal preference for student-privacy-respecting school safety technology and with the U.S.-data-storage direction H.R. 6809 sets for federally funded mapping. With RapidSOS direct-to-911 integration, IntelliSee can also deliver verified visual context to dispatchers and responding officers — exactly the kind of structured emergency data the bill's National School Safety Data Center and digital mapping standards envision. K-12 customers should plan for layered deployments that combine federal Alyssa's Law-style panic alarms, IntelliSee AI detection, and federally compliant digital emergency mapping.

Related Legislation & Resources

Bill text and history: Congress.gov — H.R. 6809 (Alyssa's Act of 2025)

Federal Alyssa’s Act of 2025 (H.R. 6809)

Related Legislation & Resources

Turn Legislative Mandates Into a Working Safety Program