97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB5298

 

Introduced 2/8/2012, by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
410 ILCS 315/2a  from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 22.12a

    Amends the Communicable Disease Prevention Act. Makes changes to the provision concerning children of school age who are reported as having been diagnosed as having AIDS or HIV. Provides that the information contained in the notification to be required of the Department of Public Health with regard to a child enrolled in a public school in kindergarten through fifth grade who is diagnosed as being infected with HIV must not be recorded in the child's permanent record. Provides that if the information is in the child's permanent school record, the information must be purged from the child's record before the child enters the sixth grade. Provides that if the child is enrolled in a public school, the principal shall disclose (instead of disclose the identity of the child) to the superintendent of the school district in which the child resides and specifies that the disclosure shall be that a child has been infected with HIV. Provides that all provisions of the AIDS Confidentiality Act shall apply, including penalties for violation of that Act.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning public health.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Communicable Disease Prevention Act is
5amended by changing Section 2a as follows:
 
6    (410 ILCS 315/2a)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 22.12a)
7    Sec. 2a. If a child is diagnosed as being infected with
8human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS,
9Whenever a child of school age is reported to the Illinois
10Department of Public Health or a local health department as
11having been diagnosed as having acquired immune deficiency
12syndrome (AIDS) or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) based
13upon case definitions established by the United States Centers
14for Disease Control and Prevention or as having been shown to
15have been exposed to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or any
16other identified causative agent of AIDS by testing positive on
17a reliable test based upon recommendations of the United States
18Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and is enrolled in
19a public school in kindergarten through fifth grade, then the
20Department of Public Health or a local health department such
21department shall give prompt and confidential notice of the
22identity of the child to the principal of the school in which
23the child is enrolled. The information contained in the

 

 

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1notification must not be recorded in the child's permanent
2record. However, if this information is in the child's
3permanent school record, the information must be purged from
4the child's record before the child enters the sixth grade. If
5the child is enrolled in a public school, the principal shall
6disclose the identity of the child to the superintendent of the
7school district in which the child resides that a child has
8been infected with HIV.
9    The principal may, as necessary, disclose the identity of
10an infected child to:
11        (1) the school nurse at that school;
12        (2) the classroom teachers in whose classes the child
13    is enrolled; and
14        (3) those persons who, pursuant to federal or state
15    law, are required to decide the placement or educational
16    program of the child.
17    In addition, the principal may inform such other persons as
18may be necessary that an infected child is enrolled at that
19school, so long as the child's identity is not revealed. All
20provisions of the AIDS Confidentiality Act shall apply,
21including penalties for violation of the Act.
22(Source: P.A. 97-244, eff. 8-4-11.)