21 & Have a Gun? Nothing Else Needed to Conceal Carry in Ohio

Ohio Governor Mike Dewine signed a new conceal carry law for Ohio. The law does away with licensing requirements, including background checks and firearms safety training.

Ohio is the 23rd state to enact this type of legislation. The law goes into effect June 12. Senate Bill 215 (as enrolled).

Also, don’t forget Hannah Capitol Connection for Ohio legislative history research is for Cleveland Marshall students, faculty, and staff. Use the link in this post or from the library webpage (under Law Databases) to access. To access from home, use your CSU ID and PIN.

Capitol Connection provides one-stop shopping for Ohio legislative history documents corresponding to bills and acts from 1989 forward. What does Hannah Capitol Connection have that is not on the Ohio General Assembly’s webpage or elsewhere on the Internet? Among other things:

  • Coverage back to 1989—the Ohio General Assembly’s page only goes back to 1997
  • Summaries of hearing testimony (When you pull up a bill, click on Bill History)
  • Hannah Report news articles corresponding to each bill
  • Executive Orders back to 1999
  • A fifty-state search to find legislation pertaining to particular topics in all or some states
  • A search for bills and acts that actually changed a particular Ohio Revised Code section, not merely a mention of the section in passing

For more information on researching Ohio legislative history, see our Legislative History Research Guide.