---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alert Systems in Public Schools"
description: "Alert Systems in Public Schools; Citing this act as \"Alyssa’s Law\"; requiring each public school to implement a mobile panic alert system for specified purposes beginning in a specified school year; authorizing public school districts to implement additional strategies and systems for specified purposes; requiring the Department of Education to issue a competitive solicitation to contract for a mobile panic alert system, subject to appropriation, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 70"
citation: "Florida SB 70 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["j"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-145"
primary_sponsors: ["Book"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-08-02"
last_action: "2020-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3fee9698-07ff-4ef2-8d63-f55835ffcd5c"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/70/ByCategory"
source_hash: "24902d60043684131c5ec9f05958b9611eb78e9b6d0de086b9a573acc9a7e0d3"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---

# Florida SB 70 (2020) — Alert Systems in Public Schools

Alert Systems in Public Schools; Citing this act as "Alyssa’s Law"; requiring each public school to implement a mobile panic alert system for specified purposes beginning in a specified school year; authorizing public school districts to implement additional strategies and systems for specified purposes; requiring the Department of Education to issue a competitive solicitation to contract for a mobile panic alert system, subject to appropriation, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-145.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S 70 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/70/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 70 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/70/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 70 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/70/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 70 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/70/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 70 e2** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/70/BillText/e2/HTML)
6. **S 70 e3** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/70/BillText/e3/HTML)
7. **S 70 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/70/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- CS/CS/SB 70 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Book — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-08-02** Filed `filing`
- **2019-08-16** Referred to Infrastructure and Security; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-06** On Committee agenda-- Infrastructure and Security, 01/13/20, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-01-13** CS by Infrastructure and Security; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-15** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-01-16** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Education
- **2020-01-22** CS by Infrastructure and Security read 1st time
- **2020-02-13** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Education, 02/18/20, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
- **2020-02-20** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Education, 02/25/20, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-02-25** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS/CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-25** Now in Appropriations
- **2020-02-26** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/27/20, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-02-27** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-28** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-03-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-02** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2020-03-03** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/05/20
- **2020-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-05** Amendment(s) adopted (658434)
- **2020-03-05** Ordered engrossed
- **2020-03-05** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-06** Amendment(s) adopted (530484)
- **2020-03-06** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-06** In Messages
- **2020-03-06** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-06** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/09/20
- **2020-03-06** Received
- **2020-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-09** Amendment(s) adopted (886033) -HJ 990, 991
- **2020-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 119 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-10** In returning messages
- **2020-03-10** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (886033)
- **2020-03-10** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-10** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2020-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-30** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-01** Chapter No. 2020-145

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3fee9698-07ff-4ef2-8d63-f55835ffcd5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).