SAVANNAH, Ga. () — After a panic button notified law enforcement of the shooting happening at Apalachee High School, the need to improve school’s safety measures became imminent.

Now, a new Georgia law going into effect on Tuesday would make installing panic alert systems in the state’s public schools mandatory.

Senate Bill 17, also known as the ‘Ricky and Alyssa’s law,’ will require Georgia public K-12 schools to install mobile panic alert systems that will be available to teachers and administrators in the building that, when pressed, would alert emergency responders, state and local enforcement to the exact location of the emergency.

Schools will also be required to provide updated digital mapping data of their buildings to law enforcement to help with the promptly response to emergency situations.

The bill was named after school shooting victims: Richard Aspinwall, killed in last year’s Apalachee High School shooting in Georgia and Alyssa Alhadeff, killed in the 2019 Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting in Florida.

 “As the husband of a teacher and father to three school-aged daughters, I feel an obligation to ensure the protection of families across our state. This legislation will help law enforcement respond swiftly in times of crisis,” said Sen. Jason Anavitarte back in January when the bill was first introduced.

Similar legislations have been enacted in more than ten other states.