Bill > HB99

This bill establishes the Ohio School Safety Crisis Center and the Ohio Mobile Training Team to develop a curriculum and provide instruction and training for individuals to convey deadly weapons and dangerous ordnance in a school safety zone, exempts such individuals from a peace officer basic training requirement, requires public notice if a board of education or school governing body authorizes persons to go armed in a school, and makes an appropriation. The key provisions of the bill include: - Creating the Ohio School Safety Crisis Center and Ohio Mobile Training Team within the Department of Public Safety to develop curriculum, provide instruction and training for individuals to be authorized to convey weapons in school safety zones. - Requiring successful completion of this training as a condition for such authorization, with the curriculum covering topics like mitigation techniques, active shooter response, first aid, and scenario-based exercises. - Exempting individuals authorized under the bill from the peace officer basic training requirement. - Requiring public notice by school boards or governing bodies that authorize individuals to carry weapons in school safety zones. - Appropriating $6 million per fiscal year for the Mobile Training Team. The bill aims to establish a statewide program to equip and train designated individuals to respond to threats and emergencies in schools, while also requiring transparency around the authorization of armed personnel on school grounds.

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https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA134-HB-99