Tim Irvin presented Senate Bill 17 and told the committee the substitute focuses on school crisis alerts and mapping. "This is the bill for the crisis alert for schools, as well as their mapping," Irvin said.

The substitute clarifies that if a school system has already purchased crisis maps, it may use those maps and the administrator may approve them for the crisis alert system, Irvin told the committee.

During consideration, a committee member sought to offer a different substitute that would add language from a representative’s bill relating to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Chair Lenny Dempsey said the proposed substitute lacked the required copies for committee consideration and ruled it out of order: "We would need the proposed substitute and I don't have that and we don't have copies passed around so I'm gonna, rule that out of order at this moment." The chair instructed members on the committee process for distributing substitutes and the need to provide copies to the rules office.

A motion and a second to approve the substitute were recorded and the committee approved SB 17 by substitute with no recorded opposition in the provided transcript. The committee also set a supplemental calendar for day 39 that included SB 17.

The transcript does not record a roll‑call tally for the SB 17 vote or the names of the motion maker and seconder.