94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB0058

 

Introduced 1/6/2005, by Rep. Lou Lang

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 110/3   from Ch. 122, par. 863

    Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Requires a comprehensive health education program to include instruction in secondary schools on clinical depression, suicide prevention, the prevention, transmission, and spread of HIV/AIDS (rather than just AIDS), disaster and terrorism preparedness (instead of disaster survival), and organ, tissue, and blood donation.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT regarding education.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive
5 Health Education Act is amended by changing Section 3 as
6 follows:
 
7     (105 ILCS 110/3)  (from Ch. 122, par. 863)
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
14 social responsibilities of family life, including sexual
15 abstinence until marriage, prevention and control of disease,
16 including instruction in grades 6 through 12 on the prevention,
17 transmission and spread of HIV/AIDS AIDS, public and
18 environmental health, consumer health, safety education and
19 disaster and terrorism preparedness survival, mental health
20 and illness (including instruction in secondary schools on
21 clinical depression and suicide prevention), personal health
22 habits, alcohol, drug use, and abuse including the medical and
23 legal ramifications of alcohol, drug, and tobacco use, abuse
24 during pregnancy, sexual abstinence until marriage, tobacco,
25 nutrition, organ, tissue, and blood donation, and dental
26 health. Notwithstanding the above educational areas, the
27 following areas may also be included as a basis for curricula
28 in all elementary and secondary schools in this State: basic
29 first aid (including, but not limited to, cardiopulmonary
30 resuscitation and the Heimlich maneuver), early prevention and
31 detection of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and the
32 prevention of child abuse, neglect, and suicide. The school

 

 

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1 board of each public elementary and secondary school in the
2 State shall encourage all teachers and other school personnel
3 to acquire, develop, and maintain the knowledge and skills
4 necessary to properly administer life-saving techniques,
5 including without limitation the Heimlich maneuver and rescue
6 breathing. The training shall be in accordance with standards
7 of the American Red Cross, the American Heart Association, or
8 another nationally recognized certifying organization. A
9 school board may use the services of non-governmental entities
10 whose personnel have expertise in life-saving techniques to
11 instruct teachers and other school personnel in these
12 techniques. Each school board is encouraged to have in its
13 employ, or on its volunteer staff, at least one person who is
14 certified, by the American Red Cross or by another qualified
15 certifying agency, as qualified to administer first aid and
16 cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In addition, each school board
17 is authorized to allocate appropriate portions of its institute
18 or inservice days to conduct training programs for teachers and
19 other school personnel who have expressed an interest in
20 becoming qualified to administer emergency first aid or
21 cardiopulmonary resuscitation. School boards are urged to
22 encourage their teachers and other school personnel who coach
23 school athletic programs and other extracurricular school
24 activities to acquire, develop, and maintain the knowledge and
25 skills necessary to properly administer first aid and
26 cardiopulmonary resuscitation in accordance with standards and
27 requirements established by the American Red Cross or another
28 qualified certifying agency. No pupil shall be required to take
29 or participate in any class or course on AIDS or family life
30 instruction if his parent or guardian submits written objection
31 thereto, and refusal to take or participate in the course or
32 program shall not be reason for suspension or expulsion of the
33 pupil.
34     Curricula developed under programs established in
35 accordance with this Act in the major educational area of
36 alcohol and drug use and abuse shall include classroom

 

 

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1 instruction in grades 5 through 12. The instruction, which
2 shall include matters relating to both the physical and legal
3 effects and ramifications of drug and substance abuse, shall be
4 integrated into existing curricula; and the State Board of
5 Education shall develop and make available to all elementary
6 and secondary schools in this State instructional materials and
7 guidelines which will assist the schools in incorporating the
8 instruction into their existing curricula. In addition, school
9 districts may offer, as part of existing curricula during the
10 school day or as part of an after school program, support
11 services and instruction for pupils or pupils whose parent,
12 parents, or guardians are chemically dependent.
13 (Source: P.A. 92-23, eff. 7-1-01.)