Ohio Governor To Sign Bill To Allow Armed Teachers in Schools

GOP Governor, Mike DeWine is expected to sign a bill that would allow teachers and support staff to be armed on school campuses. The bill has already been approved by the state’s legislature. If signed, it could go into effect as early as Fall 2022.

The bill, HB99 offers teachers and staff an additional option to protect students and provide better security, following an uptick in school shootings across the country. The bill allows for schools to decide if they want to arm personnel and to designate specific people to be armed.

Governor DeWine stated:

“My office worked with the General Assembly to remove hundreds of hours of curriculum irrelevant to school safety and to ensure training requirements were specific to a school environment and contained significant scenario-based training. House Bill 99 accomplishes these goals, and I thank the General Assembly for passing this bill to protect Ohio children and teachers. I look forward to signing this important legislation.”

The bill requires that anyone who will be armed must go through 24 hours of training. The bill overrides a previous bill that said teachers had to obtain as many training hours as police to be armed.

DeWine also introduced a safety bill that will allocate $100 million for school security upgrades at K-12 schools. It also allocated $5 million for security at higher education institutions.

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