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1     AN ACT concerning education, which may be referred to as
2 the Brandon Ballard Law.
 
3     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
 
5     Section 5. The Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive
6 Health Education Act is amended by changing Section 3 as
7 follows:
 
8     (105 ILCS 110/3)  (from Ch. 122, par. 863)
9     Sec. 3. Comprehensive Health Education Program. The
10 program established under this Act shall include, but not be
11 limited to, the following major educational areas as a basis
12 for curricula in all elementary and secondary schools in this
13 State: human ecology and health, human growth and development,
14 the emotional, psychological, physiological, hygienic and
15 social responsibilities of family life, including sexual
16 abstinence until marriage, prevention and control of disease,
17 including instruction in grades 6 through 12 on the prevention,
18 transmission and spread of AIDS, sexual assault awareness in
19 secondary schools, public and environmental health, consumer
20 health, safety education and disaster survival, mental health
21 and illness, personal health habits, alcohol, drug use, and
22 abuse including the medical and legal ramifications of alcohol,
23 drug, and tobacco use, abuse during pregnancy, sexual

 

 

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1 abstinence until marriage, tobacco, nutrition, and dental
2 health. The program shall also provide course material and
3 instruction to advise pupils of the Abandoned Newborn Infant
4 Protection Act. The program shall include information about
5 cancer, including without limitation types of cancer, signs and
6 symptoms, risk factors, the importance of early prevention and
7 detection, and information on where to go for help.
8 Notwithstanding the above educational areas, the following
9 areas may also be included as a basis for curricula in all
10 elementary and secondary schools in this State: basic first aid
11 (including, but not limited to, cardiopulmonary resuscitation
12 and the Heimlich maneuver), early prevention and detection of
13 cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and the prevention of
14 child abuse, neglect, and suicide.
15     The school board of each public elementary and secondary
16 school in the State shall encourage all teachers and other
17 school personnel to acquire, develop, and maintain the
18 knowledge and skills necessary to properly administer
19 life-saving techniques, including without limitation the
20 Heimlich maneuver and rescue breathing. The training shall be
21 in accordance with standards of the American Red Cross, the
22 American Heart Association, or another nationally recognized
23 certifying organization. A school board may use the services of
24 non-governmental entities whose personnel have expertise in
25 life-saving techniques to instruct teachers and other school
26 personnel in these techniques. Each school board is encouraged

 

 

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1 to have in its employ, or on its volunteer staff, at least one
2 person who is certified, by the American Red Cross or by
3 another qualified certifying agency, as qualified to
4 administer first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In
5 addition, each school board is authorized to allocate
6 appropriate portions of its institute or inservice days to
7 conduct training programs for teachers and other school
8 personnel who have expressed an interest in becoming qualified
9 to administer emergency first aid or cardiopulmonary
10 resuscitation. School boards are urged to encourage their
11 teachers and other school personnel who coach school athletic
12 programs and other extracurricular school activities to
13 acquire, develop, and maintain the knowledge and skills
14 necessary to properly administer first aid and cardiopulmonary
15 resuscitation in accordance with standards and requirements
16 established by the American Red Cross or another qualified
17 certifying agency. Subject to appropriation, the State Board of
18 Education shall establish and administer a matching grant
19 program to pay for half of the cost that a school district
20 incurs in training those teachers and other school personnel
21 who express an interest in becoming qualified to administer
22 cardiopulmonary resuscitation (which training must be in
23 accordance with standards of the American Red Cross, the
24 American Heart Association, or another nationally recognized
25 certifying organization) or in learning how to use an automated
26 external defibrillator. A school district that applies for a

 

 

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1 grant must demonstrate that it has funds to pay half of the
2 cost of the training for which matching grant money is sought.
3 The State Board of Education shall award the grants on a
4 first-come, first-serve basis.
5     No pupil shall be required to take or participate in any
6 class or course on AIDS or family life instruction if his
7 parent or guardian submits written objection thereto, and
8 refusal to take or participate in the course or program shall
9 not be reason for suspension or expulsion of the pupil.
10     Curricula developed under programs established in
11 accordance with this Act in the major educational area of
12 alcohol and drug use and abuse shall include classroom
13 instruction in grades 5 through 12. The instruction, which
14 shall include matters relating to both the physical and legal
15 effects and ramifications of drug and substance abuse, shall be
16 integrated into existing curricula; and the State Board of
17 Education shall develop and make available to all elementary
18 and secondary schools in this State instructional materials and
19 guidelines which will assist the schools in incorporating the
20 instruction into their existing curricula. In addition, school
21 districts may offer, as part of existing curricula during the
22 school day or as part of an after school program, support
23 services and instruction for pupils or pupils whose parent,
24 parents, or guardians are chemically dependent.
25 (Source: P.A. 94-933, eff. 6-26-06; 95-43, eff. 1-1-08; 95-764,
26 eff. 1-1-09; revised 9-5-08.)
 

 

 

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1     Section 10. The Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act
2 is amended by adding Section 1.5 as follows:
 
3     (105 ILCS 25/1.5 new)
4     Sec. 1.5. Cancer screening. An association or other entity
5 that has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring,
6 regulating, or in any manner providing for interscholastic
7 athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools and
8 students within this State shall include a question asking
9 whether a student has a family history of cancer on any
10 pre-participation examination form given to students
11 participating or seeking to participate in interscholastic
12 athletics. The association or entity may require that a
13 testicular examination be conducted as a part of any physical
14 required for a male student's participation in interscholastic
15 athletics.