President Trump has signed Lulu’s Law, a new federal safety measure built around one teenager’s survival story.
The bill is short, simple, and aimed straight at protecting families at the beach this summer.
It directs the federal government to make shark attacks an official trigger for emergency alerts on your cell phone.
Congressman Gary Palmer of Alabama, who helped carry the bill, put the heart of it plainly.
Over the last two years, Lulu Gribbin has shown tremendous strength, and her story has inspired the entire nation.
Lulu’s Law is a commonsense solution to protect beachgoers from harm’s way by implementing wireless emergency alerts to notify the public when dangerous conditions… pic.twitter.com/9MOd7NrF37
— Gary Palmer (@USRepGaryPalmer) June 29, 2026
The White House announced on June 26, 2026 that the President signed S. 1003 into law, and the signing notice identifies the bill as Lulu’s Law rather than a generic beach-safety measure.
The measure is narrow on purpose. It requires the Federal Communications Commission to issue an order explicitly permitting wireless emergency alerts to be sent to mobile phones when a shark attack occurs.
That means the law is not creating a new bureaucracy for beach closures or telling states how to manage every shoreline. It is opening the door for a familiar alert system to warn people when a dangerous shark incident has already happened nearby.
The timing matters because President Trump signed it just as millions of families are heading to the coast for summer trips.
The enrolled bill text confirms the act may be cited as Lulu’s Law, then moves directly to the wireless-alert requirement.
It gives the FCC a hard deadline of 180 days after enactment to issue its order. That deadline keeps the law from becoming a nice press release that disappears into agency limbo.
The order must provide that a shark attack is an event for which an Alert Message may be transmitted to the public, using the alert-message framework already defined in federal communications rules.
In plain terms, the same kind of alert system that warns you about a tornado, a missing child, or another immediate public-safety threat can now be used to warn beachgoers when a shark has struck nearby.
The story behind the law is the reason it moved.
According to Senator Katie Britt, Lulu Gribbin was attacked by a shark on June 7, 2024 and suffered nearly fatal injuries, turning what began as one family’s nightmare into a national warning-system fight.
Another swimmer, Elizabeth Foley, had been attacked roughly 90 minutes earlier and only a few miles away. That timing is why the alert question became so urgent.
Britt’s office argues that an alert system could have warned other beachgoers to get out of the water before the second attack happened, which is exactly the practical gap Lulu’s Law is trying to close.
That gap between the first attack and the second is the whole point of the bill: when minutes matter, a warning that reaches phones on the beach can be the difference between another ordinary swim and another trauma.
Britt’s office also pointed to recent shark activity in St. Andrews Bay as proof the warning mechanism is needed now.
This was not a partisan fight, which is part of why it landed on the President’s desk.
The congressional record shows S. 1003 passed the Senate without amendment by unanimous consent on July 8, 2025, after being reported out of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.
The House passed it on May 20, 2026 by a 401-6 vote under suspension of the rules, a margin that says members understood this was not a culture-war stunt or a messaging bill.
The bill was sent to the President on June 15 and signed on June 26, 2026, giving the FCC its 180-day clock to put the alert authority into place.
You do not see 401-6 votes often in this Congress. A teenage survivor, an Alabama-backed safety push, and a simple cell-phone warning fix got one.
Legislation directing the FCC to classify shark attacks as events eligible for wireless emergency alerts was signed into law by President Trump. Lulu Law's, which passed the Senate in July 2025 by unanimous consent & the House 401-6 last month, is named in honor of 16-year-old… https://t.co/fukx4Ht9WE pic.twitter.com/ndjStmZFBf
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) June 28, 2026
Alabama leaders made clear who deserved the credit.
Governor Kay Ivey thanked President Trump for signing the federal legislation and credited Senator Britt, Congressman Palmer, and Lulu Gribbin herself.
Alabama’s Lulu’s Law will now make a difference nationwide. Thank you, President Trump, for signing the federal legislation, and thank you to Senator Katie Britt, Congressman Gary Palmer and everyone who championed this effort. Alabama is proud of our Lulu Gribbin. #alpolitics https://t.co/NZOLLE1Fsa
— Governor Kay Ivey (@GovernorKayIvey) June 28, 2026
The timing matters for families heading to the coast right now.
Summer beach season is in full swing, and the FCC has its clock running on the alert order.
Lulu Gribbin lived through something that could have ended her life, and instead of staying quiet she turned it into a warning system for the entire country.
That is exactly the kind of law that earns a signature, and President Trump gave it one.
This is a Guest Post from our friends over at 100 Percent Fed Up. View the original article here.
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