HB 592 — Public schools; wearable panic alarm systems.
VA 20261 session
Alyssa's Law; public schools; wearable panic alarm systems permitted. Permits any school board to provide any school board employee in a public elementary or secondary school building in the local school division with a wearable panic alarm system, defined in the bill as a security system that is capable of being worn on the body of the user and by which the user manually activates a device that sends (i) a signal to the local 9-1-1 public safety answering point that indicates a school security emergency that requires immediate response and assistance from such public safety answering point and (ii) a multisensory schoolwide school security emergency notification, when appropriate.
Latest action: — Acts of Assembly Chapter
Sponsors (5)
- Shelly A. Simonds (D, VA) — sponsor
- Karen R. "Kacey" Carnegie (D, VA) — cosponsor
- John Chilton McAuliff (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Virgil Thornton (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Holly M. Seibold (D, VA) — cosponsor
Action timeline (36)
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Who matters on this bill
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shelly A. Simonds (D, state_lower VA) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Holly M. Seibold (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | John Chilton McAuliff (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Karen R. "Kacey" Carnegie (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Virgil Thornton (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
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Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no