The Senate passed a bill Thursday that would set up a 24-hour-a-day volcano early warning system to give population centers a heads-up of impending eruptions such as the current ones in Hawaii.

“Volcanic eruptions, like the one in Hawaii and the one earlier this month at Cleveland Volcano in Alaska, are vivid reminders of why it is so critical to have continuous and reliable monitoring systems,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairwoman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.