(NEXSTAR) -- Eight years after 17 people were killed in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, there's a renewed push on Capitol Hill for school safety legislation. Parents of several students killed in the shooting are in Washington advocating for changes. "Luke, my son, was 15 years old when he was killed that day," Tom Hoyer said. "His life and 16 others were stolen at a place that should have been a sanctuary of learning but the horrors that unfolded that day were the absolute opposite of a sanctuary." They're backing a series of bills that would increase safety in schools across the country including the Measures for Safer School Districts (MSD) Act which seeks to modernize school safety infrastructure, Alyssa's Act aimed at establishing national school safety standards, and the Single Application for School Safety (SASS) Act to streamline the grant application process for schools to request federal support for school security. "We cannot bring Alyssa back but we can work to ensure that no other family has to endure the heartbreak we live every day," the parents of Alyssa Alhadeff, the namesake of Alyssa's Act, said. "Had a lockdown been initiated sooner, our precious Alyssa…might be with us here today." High school students including Connecticut's Zander Bauer and Elijah Falkenstein joined the parents in Washington asking for changes. "We grew up 20 minutes from where Sandy Hook happened, and that was traumatic for us," Falkenstein said. They said they want silent alarms that give teachers the ability to notify law enforcement and initiate a school lockdown in case of a crisis to become mandatory. "It would personally make me feel a lot safer," Bauer said. Each proposal has bipartisan support. "You never accept a school without a fire alarm. Nowadays, why are we accepting this?," Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a New Jersey Democrat said. "We have to just keep going, making the case, and turning this tragedy into results before another family has to face the pain that these families have faced." "We're going to make sure that every child that steps into a classroom is safe, every teacher is safe" Utah Republican Rep. Burgess Owens said.