West Virginia House OKs bill to allow teachers with training to carry guns, other weapons in schools
West Virginia’s Republican-controlled House of Delegates voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to allow teachers and other school staff who undergo training to carry guns in K-12 public schools.
The bill, which now heads to the Senate, would allow teachers, administrators and support personnel with concealed carry permits to volunteer to bring a firearm into school with the intention of using it to defend the school in case of an active shooter event. Designated a “school protection officer,” the staffer wouldn’t receive any additional compensation for doing so.
Supporters say not every school system in West Virginia can afford to hire a full-time school resource officer. This program would provide another option.
Before the vote, Republican Del. Dave Foggin of Wood County, a physics teacher, said he can’t think of anything worse than shooting someone in his classroom. But he said if that person came into his school trying to hurt his students, he would do it.
Here's the actual bill text, not someone at AP New's interpretation of the text. The firearm should be concealed while they're on campus, not hiding it on campus.
https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4299%20eng.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4299
Where in this text that mentions concealed is either immediately preceded/followed by carried, or in a sentence about it needing to be carried.
IDK why the link stopped working. It worked when I double checked it.
https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4299&year=2024&sessiontype=rs#:~:text=TEXT%3A%0ABill%20Definitions-,Engrossed%20Version,-%2D%20html%20%7C
Sorry, I got the exact same error. On two different browsers.
No idea, something must time out or be cached based.
http://web.archive.org/web/20240222210218/https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4299%20eng.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4299
What a massive pain in the ass it was to get archive.org to archive it. Fuck ColdFusion.
https://www.wvlegislature.gov/ in the top right search for "House Bill 4299" and the first result should be for the 2024 session. Don't accidentally look at the one from 2022 or the one that requires healthcare workers to do something sexual to their patients like I first found.If that doesn't work then I guess google for 2024 west virginia house bill 4299 2024 and you should find something.Thanks for figuring it out.