Texas School Silent Panic Alert Systems | Alyssa's Law Compliance
Texas School Safety • Alyssa's Law • TEC §37.118
Silent Panic Alert Systems for Texas Schools
Practical classroom emergency alert solutions built around your campus—not an expensive one-size-fits-all package.
Our goal: help eligible schools plan a reliable solution around a $15,000 per-campus budget when site conditions allow.
What Texas law requires
Senate Bill 838, commonly called Alyssa's Law, requires Texas school districts and open-enrollment charter schools to provide silent panic alert technology in each classroom beginning with the 2025–2026 school year. The provision is now codified at Texas Education Code §37.118 (previously §37.117).
Classroom technology must enable immediate contact with district or school emergency services and emergency services agencies, law enforcement agencies, health departments, and fire departments. A panic alert system does not replace the separate requirement for employee access to a telephone or another electronic communication device.
Don't spend more than your school needs to spend
Avenger Security believes many campuses should be able to pursue dependable silent panic alert solutions with a $15,000 planning target, especially where the school already has usable networking, communications, video surveillance or access control infrastructure. We will evaluate practical wired, wireless and integrated approaches instead of automatically proposing a costly full-campus replacement.
Budget note: $15,000 is an initial planning target, not a fixed-price offer or guarantee that every campus can be made compliant for that amount. Final pricing depends on classroom count, building construction, coverage, connectivity, emergency notification requirements, integrations, testing, and any applicable authority or emergency-agency requirements.
Texas school safety funding increased
House Bill 2 increased the School Safety Allotment from $15,000 to $33,540 per eligible campus, plus an average-daily-attendance component, beginning in the 2025–2026 school year. This is a school safety allotment—not $33,540 earmarked solely for panic buttons. Subject to funding rules, districts can also use eligible funding for other school security improvements.
Our approach is to preserve as much of that budget as possible for other essential campus safety needs.
How Avenger Security can help
- Campus review: evaluate classroom count, building layout, power, network availability and existing security systems.
- Solution selection: compare suitable silent panic alert equipment and notification methods based on actual requirements.
- Existing-system integration: evaluate opportunities to coordinate alerts with compatible cameras, intercom/PA, access control and other campus communications.
- Emergency response coordination: identify required routing, location information, agency participation and system testing.
- Installation and documentation: provide a defined scope, implementation plan, testing procedures, and service recommendations.
- Ongoing support: discuss maintenance, recurring software costs, user training, monitoring, and periodic functional testing.
Keep existing equipment working for you
Avenger Security designs and services access control, video surveillance, and campus intercom and emergency communications systems. Where technically supported and approved for the application, existing equipment may be reused or integrated into a coordinated response strategy. Any automated door-control actions must preserve required life-safety and emergency egress functions. Specific integrations and emergency agency connections must be verified before deployment.
Our approach: reliable, testable, maintainable
A campus panic alert system is only useful if the alert reaches the intended recipients and responders. We evaluate power and connectivity resilience, device identification and location, alert transmission, acknowledgement, drills, testing and serviceability. We do not assume that purchasing a panic button alone demonstrates compliance; the completed system must be assessed against applicable requirements.
Request assistance with Alyssa's Law compliance
School administrators, facilities directors, district safety coordinators and charter-school operators: contact Avenger Security for help understanding your existing equipment, available options and realistic campus costs. Tell us your number of classrooms, campus location, current security platforms and desired project timeline.
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Avenger Security Services, Inc. — Texas-licensed security and fire alarm contractor serving Austin, Round Rock, Georgetown, Hutto and school clients across Texas.
Official Texas references
Texas Education Code §37.118 — Silent Panic Alert Technology
Texas Education Code §48.160 — School Safety Allotment
Texas Education Agency — 89th Legislative School Safety Updates
Information is provided for general planning. System design, eligibility for funding, agency procedures, and compliance determinations are project-specific.