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New Sec. 6. (a) No insurance company shall charge unfair discriminatory premiums, policy fees or rates for, or refuse to provide, anypolicy or contract of real or personal property insurance, liability insurance or policy containing liability coverage for any unified school district solely because such school district authorizes employees of such school district to carry concealed handguns on the premises of schools and attendance centers operated by such school district, unless the rate differential, orrefusal to provide, is based on sound actuarial principles or is related toactual or reasonably anticipated experience. No insurance company shall unfairly discriminate in the payments of dividends, other benefits payable under a policy, or in any of the terms and conditions of such policy orcontract solely because the school district that is the owner of the policy orcontract authorizes employees of such school district to carry concealed handguns on the premises of schools and attendance centers operated bysuch school district, unless the difference is based on sound actuarial principles or is related to actual or reasonably anticipated experience.

New Sec. 5. (a) The board of education of any school district mayauthorize any employee of such district who has a license to carry aconcealed handgun issued pursuant to K.S.A. 2017 Supp. 75-7c01 et seq.,and amendments thereto, or who desires to obtain such license, to obtain alicense with a SAFER schools endorsement. Any employee who has obtained a SAFER schools endorsement on such employee's license to carry a concealed handgun shall be designated as a SAFER schools teammember by the board of education of such district. All SAFER schools team members shall be authorized by the board of education of the districtemploying such members to carry a concealed handgun in any building ofsuch district in accordance with K.S.A. 2017 Supp. 75-7c10, and amendments thereto.

students and emphasizing how students should respond when encountering a firearm, the board of education of a school district may provide firearm safety education programs. The state board of shall establish curriculum guidelines for a standardized firearm safety education program. Such guidelines shall include, but not be limited to, accident prevention and: (a) For students enrolled in kindergarten and grades one through five, shall be based on the Eddie Eagle Gunsafe program offered by the national rifle association or any other evidence based program or any successor program; (b) for students enrolled ingrades six, seven and eight, shall be based on the Eddie Eagle Gunsafe program offered by the national rifle association or any successor program,the hunter education in our schools program offered by the Kansas department of wildlife, parks and tourism or any successor program, orany other evidence-based program or any successor program; and (c) for students enrolled in grades nine through 12, shall be based on the huntereducation in our schools program offered by the Kansas department ofwildlife, parks and tourism or any successor program, or any otherevidence-based program or any successor program. If a board of educationelects to provide firearm safety education, such instruction shall be inaccordance with the guidelines established by the state board of education,and shall be offered so as to ensure that all students are provided theopportunity to take the course

The bill, which penalizes school districts who choose to not allow teachers to carry, gets around an early problem — the lack of interest by insurance companies — by saying insurance companies cannot consider such in their handling of policies. Gun ownership, it seems, will be a pre-existing condition.

Even more telling, the program specifically names the NRA as the source of “evidence based” gun education programs.

The bill, which could be best said to be full of ideas that are dubious at best, reflects another piece of legislation anonymously introduced, with no house member willing to stand behind it as the source.

The kicker:

(2) In any action against a unified school district arising out of acts or omissions regarding the possession or use of firearms on the premises of such school district, there shall be a rebuttable presumption of negligence on the part of such school district when it is shown by evidence that such school district did not authorize any employee of such school district, other than school security officers, to carry concealed handguns in buildings operated by such school district pursuant to subsection (d).

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Kansans, however, are willing to sign on the dotted line their testimony in opposition — and tomorrow in the State House, Room 281-N at 8AM, March 27th, their voices will be heard.