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State of Illinois
2021 and 2022 SB4028 Introduced 1/21/2022, by Sen. Mike Simmons SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. With respect to the Comprehensive Health Education Program, requires that the instruction on mental health and illness discuss how and where to find mental health resources in this State. Effective immediately.
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1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
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2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | | Section 5. The Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive |
5 | | Health
Education Act is amended by changing Section 3 as |
6 | | follows:
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7 | | (105 ILCS 110/3)
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8 | | Sec. 3. Comprehensive Health Education Program. The |
9 | | program established
under this Act shall include, but not be |
10 | | limited to, the following major
educational areas as a basis |
11 | | for curricula in all elementary and secondary
schools in this |
12 | | State: human ecology and health; human growth and
development; |
13 | | the emotional, psychological, physiological, hygienic, and
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14 | | social responsibilities of family life, including sexual |
15 | | abstinence until
marriage; the prevention and control of |
16 | | disease, including instruction in
grades 6 through 12 on the |
17 | | prevention, transmission, and spread of AIDS; age-appropriate |
18 | | sexual abuse and assault awareness and prevention education in |
19 | | grades pre-kindergarten through 12; public and environmental |
20 | | health; consumer health; safety education and
disaster |
21 | | survival; mental health and illness; personal health habits;
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22 | | alcohol and drug use and abuse, including the medical and |
23 | | legal ramifications
of alcohol, drug, and tobacco use; abuse |
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1 | | during pregnancy; evidence-based and medically accurate |
2 | | information regarding sexual
abstinence; tobacco and |
3 | | e-cigarettes and other vapor devices; nutrition; and dental |
4 | | health. The instruction on mental health and illness must |
5 | | evaluate the multiple dimensions of health by reviewing the |
6 | | relationship between physical and mental health so as to |
7 | | enhance student understanding, attitudes, and behaviors that |
8 | | promote health, well-being, and human dignity and must discuss |
9 | | how and where to find mental health resources in this State . |
10 | | The program shall also provide course material and instruction |
11 | | to advise pupils of the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection |
12 | | Act.
The program shall include information about cancer, |
13 | | including, without limitation, types of cancer, signs and |
14 | | symptoms, risk factors, the importance of early prevention and |
15 | | detection, and information on where to go for help. |
16 | | Notwithstanding the above educational areas, the following |
17 | | areas may also
be included as a basis for curricula in all |
18 | | elementary and secondary
schools in this State: basic first |
19 | | aid (including, but not limited to,
cardiopulmonary |
20 | | resuscitation and the Heimlich maneuver), heart disease, |
21 | | diabetes, stroke, the
prevention of child abuse, neglect, and |
22 | | suicide, and teen dating violence in grades 7 through 12. |
23 | | Beginning with the 2014-2015 school year, training on how to |
24 | | properly administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation (which |
25 | | training must be in accordance with standards of the American |
26 | | Red Cross, the American Heart Association, or another |
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1 | | nationally recognized certifying organization) and how to use |
2 | | an automated external defibrillator shall be included as a |
3 | | basis for curricula in all secondary schools in this State. |
4 | | The school board of each
public elementary and secondary |
5 | | school in the State
shall encourage all teachers and other |
6 | | school personnel to acquire,
develop, and maintain the |
7 | | knowledge and skills necessary to properly
administer |
8 | | life-saving techniques, including, without limitation, the
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9 | | Heimlich maneuver and rescue breathing.
The training shall be |
10 | | in
accordance with standards of the
American Red Cross, the |
11 | | American Heart Association, or another nationally
recognized |
12 | | certifying organization.
A school board may use the
services |
13 | | of non-governmental entities whose personnel have expertise in
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14 | | life-saving techniques to instruct teachers and other school |
15 | | personnel in
these techniques. Each school board
is encouraged |
16 | | to have in
its employ, or on its volunteer staff, at least one |
17 | | person who is certified, by
the American Red Cross or by |
18 | | another qualified certifying agency,
as qualified to |
19 | | administer first aid and
cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In |
20 | | addition, each school board is authorized to
allocate |
21 | | appropriate portions of its institute or inservice days to |
22 | | conduct
training programs for teachers and other school |
23 | | personnel who have expressed an
interest in becoming qualified |
24 | | to administer emergency first aid or
cardiopulmonary |
25 | | resuscitation. School boards are urged to
encourage their |
26 | | teachers and other school personnel who coach school athletic
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1 | | programs and other extracurricular school activities to |
2 | | acquire, develop, and
maintain the knowledge and skills |
3 | | necessary to properly administer first aid
and cardiopulmonary |
4 | | resuscitation in accordance with standards and requirements
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5 | | established by the American Red Cross or another qualified |
6 | | certifying agency. Subject to appropriation, the State Board |
7 | | of Education shall establish and administer a matching grant |
8 | | program to pay for half of the cost that a school district |
9 | | incurs in training those teachers and other school personnel |
10 | | who express an interest in becoming qualified to administer |
11 | | cardiopulmonary resuscitation (which training must be in
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12 | | accordance with standards of the
American Red Cross, the |
13 | | American Heart Association, or another nationally
recognized |
14 | | certifying organization) or in learning how to use an |
15 | | automated external defibrillator. A school district that |
16 | | applies for a grant must demonstrate that it has funds to pay |
17 | | half of the cost of the training for which matching grant money |
18 | | is sought. The State Board of Education shall award the grants |
19 | | on a first-come, first-serve basis.
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20 | | No pupil shall be
required to take or participate in any |
21 | | class or course on AIDS or family
life instruction or to |
22 | | receive training on how to properly administer cardiopulmonary |
23 | | resuscitation or how to use an automated external |
24 | | defibrillator if his or her parent or guardian submits written |
25 | | objection
thereto, and refusal to take or participate in the |
26 | | course or program or the training shall
not be reason for |
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1 | | suspension or expulsion of the pupil.
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2 | | Curricula developed under programs established in |
3 | | accordance with this
Act in the major educational area of |
4 | | alcohol and drug use and abuse shall
include classroom |
5 | | instruction in grades 5 through 12. The instruction,
which |
6 | | shall include matters relating to both the physical and legal |
7 | | effects
and ramifications of drug and substance abuse, shall |
8 | | be integrated into
existing curricula; and the State Board of |
9 | | Education shall develop and make
available to all elementary |
10 | | and secondary schools in this State
instructional materials |
11 | | and guidelines which will assist the schools in
incorporating |
12 | | the instruction into their existing curricula. In
addition, |
13 | | school districts may offer, as part of existing curricula |
14 | | during
the school day or as part of an after school program, |
15 | | support services and
instruction for pupils or pupils whose |
16 | | parent, parents, or guardians are
chemically dependent.
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17 | | (Source: P.A. 101-305, eff. 1-1-20; 102-464, eff. 8-20-21; |
18 | | 102-558, eff. 8-20-21.)
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19 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
20 | | becoming law.
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