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(KAIR) -- Kansas will allow public schools and colleges to arm employees with concealed guns and loosen restrictions on carrying concealed weapons into public buildings, starting in July.
Governor Sam Brownback signed the concealed carry legislation into law Tuesday.
The law allows local school boards, university presidents and college boards to designate individual employees who can carry concealed weapons in their buildings, whatever their policies for the general public.
Brian Jolly, President of the USD 377 school board in Effingham, says he and fellow board members have been following the legislation this session and he has gotten feedback from some parents in the district.
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State Sen. Forrest Knox, a leading advocate of the measure, said Wednesday that it sends a message that Kansas trusts law-abiding citizens to carry concealed guns.
The new law also says that state agencies, local governments, state universities and state colleges couldn't prevent people with state permits from bringing concealed guns into their buildings after 2017.
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