SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — Two new Illinois laws will help improve safety precautions for different types of emergency response. Both plans received unanimous support as Democrats and Republicans work to keep students and educators safe.

Senate Bill 2057 requires the Illinois State Board of Education to provide school districts with standards for threat assessment procedures. The law allows ISBE and the State Fire Marshal to create new rules that guide public schools, private schools and first responders on how to develop threat assessment procedures and rapid entry response plans.

This comes as several schools received shooting threats following the mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia that left four people dead in September.

"The way they handled it was very professional

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