Legislative Description

To permit investigators of the Attorney General's office to be authorized to go armed while investigating nursing home, residential care facility, long-term care facility, Medicaid program, or patient abuse or neglect violations and be exempt from concealed weapons prohibitions in the same manner as sheriffs and police officers; to expand the options for obtaining relief from the disability under the offense of having weapons while under disability; and to modify the concealed handgun licensing law by allowing nonresidents of Ohio to be issued a standard license if they are employed in Ohio or a temporary emergency license if they are temporarily in the state, removing the six-year look-back period from the competency certification exemption for retired or honorably discharged armed forces veterans, adding a competency certification exemption for persons who have completed training at the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy or the annual firearms recertification program, reducing the number of hours of training required for the competency certification, making a person ineligible for a license if the person has an out-of-state license that has been suspended for a reason similar to a reason that triggers the suspension of an Ohio license, repealing the statutory license application form and instead requiring the Attorney General to prescribe a form and make it available to sheriffs and online, exempting from the license renewal requirement for a specified period a person who is on active duty in the armed forces or in service with the Peace Corps, Volunteers in Service to America, or the U.S. foreign service and is a licensee or who is the spouse or dependent of such a person and is a licensee, eliminating the authority for a lessor of government land or premises to ban firearms or concealed firearms from the land or premises, and modifying the sanction for violating such a ban on private land or premises posted by the owner.

Firearm/concealed carry laws

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