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The bill improves public safety by providing shark-warning alerts to protect beachgoers, but does so at the cost of more frequent alerts that could cause public alert fatigue and create operational burdens for emergency agencies.
Coastal residents and beachgoers will receive timely shark-danger warnings via the Wireless Emergency Alert system, enabling them to avoid beaches and reduce the risk of shark-attack injuries.
The bill expands use of the Wireless Emergency Alert system, increasing alert frequency and raising the risk of public desensitization to warnings, which could reduce the effectiveness of future alerts.
Determining when to send shark alerts will impose additional operational burdens on local emergency managers and the FCC, potentially straining resources and complicating decisionmaking during other emergencies.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the FCC to designate shark attacks as an eligible event for Wireless Emergency Alerts within 180 days of enactment.
Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to issue an order within 180 days directing that a shark attack be designated as an event eligible for Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA). It names the law "Lulu’s Law" but contains no funding, agency creation, or additional program details. The bill's only substantive effect is to compel the FCC to add shark attacks to the list of conditions for which short, location-targeted emergency alert messages may be transmitted to wireless devices under existing WEA rules.
Official title: Require the Federal Communications Commission to issue an order providing that a shark attack is an event for which a wireless emergency alert may be transmitted, and for other purposes.
Introduced March 12, 2025 by Katie Boyd Britt · Last progress June 26, 2026