ATLANTA (WJBF) - With just days to go, state lawmakers are making one final push to get bills cleared before the 2025 legislative session ends on Friday.
The largest chunk of the state budget falls on education and schools.
House bill 268 would require public schools to install a mobile panic alert system to coordinate with first responders in the event of a school security issue.
The bill would also require schools to provide school mapping data to GEMA and Homeland Security Agency.
The bill would require any transferring student in the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice to provide those records to the receiving school, to understand a student's prior history, if they had "critical records."
"So we have been working on the mental health angle and the ability that school systems like how they get academic records, if there are behavioral threats that have been made, that a new school system knows about those as well," said State Rep Mark Newton.
Governor Brian Kemp is giving the green light to provide public schools a one-time $50 million dollar grant to improve school safety as part of his amended budget.
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