Fla. county didn’t require active-shooter drills for students

The measure was changed to exclude teachers who “exclusively” teach in classrooms, but union leaders said it will nonetheless create a more hostile environment in schools.

The Senate measure comes more than two weeks after a gunman killed 17 students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. “I think every time the legislature is hasty, and I think universal background checks is hasty that’s what happens when you try to push stuff and it doesn’t get fully vetted through the committee process”.

As at least one gun rights group promises a lawsuit should the bill become law, Republicans in the Florida Senate continue to repel efforts to install an “assault weapon” ban. Some Republicans in both houses contend they go too far. The bill was amended to bar most teachers from being able to participate.

Florida State senators spoke for hours in Tallahassee on the controversial, multi-tiered school public safety bill.

The bill now goes to the House, which has a similar bill still waiting for consideration by the full chamber.

The Florida Senate will likely pass changes to the state’s gun law, but some parts of the bill are still unacceptable to some people, including some lawmakers and students from Parkland.

“I want us to do today what the kids asked us to do when 10,000 of them came up here on the steps of the capital and asked us”, she said.

The moratorium was just one of several Democratic amendments to a package of bills ostensibly aimed at preventing another school massacre.

Rep. Martin LaLonde, D-South Burlington, who introduced the amendments to the bill, said achieving broad support was less important that drafting an effective law.

“We do a lousy job of representing working class people and we should be ashamed of ourselves”, Lee said on the Senate floor.

Broward County, Fla., schools have enhanced training for teachers to cover active-shooter situations, but – 19 years after Columbine and five years after Sandy Hook – there is no requirement that schools hold active-shooter drills for students. But he said the measure gives others a chance to have a say. “Now’s the time. Today’s the day to take a vote for a fundamental principle we all believe in”. The annual 60-day session is scheduled to end Friday.

Local school officials aren’t exactly enthusiastic about President Donald Trump’s proposal to arm “highly trained teachers” to stop mass school shootings.

The school safety plan Scott proposed is otherwise mostly in line with the bill the Senate is considering.

The state’s Senate is due to vote on gun legislation that would create a programme for arming teachers, raise the minimum age for buying a rifle to 21, and pour millions of dollars into mental health schemes, USA Today reports. As did a bill requiring child trigger locks on guns.