The Governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine is expected to sign a bill that would allow teachers, staff and employees of public schools to carry firearms after completing 24 hours of training starting this fall.
Schools who have staff that wish to carry firearms would submit their training proposals to the Ohio School Safety and Crisis Center for approval. School districts would be responsible for training costs.
The bill passed by the state legislature comes about a year after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that staff must have 20 years of experience before carrying a gun at school and about two weeks after the massacre at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde where 19 children and two teachers were killed.
The schools have the option of requiring more hours of training than the 20 hours of handgun training and five hours on any other weapon,
“Nothing in this section prohibits a school district board of education or governing body of a school from requiring additional training.”
Governor DeWine said he plans to sign HB 99 into law,
