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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive
5Health Education Act is amended by changing Section 3 and by
6adding Section 3.10 as follows:
 
7    (105 ILCS 110/3)
8    Sec. 3. Comprehensive Health Education Program. The
9program established under this Act shall include, but not be
10limited to, the following major educational areas as a basis
11for curricula in all elementary and secondary schools in this
12State: human ecology and health, human growth and development,
13the emotional, psychological, physiological, hygienic and
14social responsibilities of family life, including sexual
15abstinence until marriage, prevention and control of disease,
16including instruction in grades 6 through 12 on the prevention,
17transmission and spread of AIDS, age-appropriate sexual abuse
18and assault awareness and prevention education in grades
19pre-kindergarten through 12, public and environmental health,
20consumer health, safety education and disaster survival,
21mental health and illness, personal health habits, alcohol,
22drug use, and abuse including the medical and legal
23ramifications of alcohol, drug, and tobacco use, abuse during

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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1external defibrillator. A school district that applies for a
2grant must demonstrate that it has funds to pay half of the
3cost of the training for which matching grant money is sought.
4The State Board of Education shall award the grants on a
5first-come, first-serve basis.
6    No pupil shall be required to take or participate in any
7class or course on AIDS or family life instruction if his
8parent or guardian submits written objection thereto, and
9refusal to take or participate in the course or program shall
10not be reason for suspension or expulsion of the pupil.
11    Curricula developed under programs established in
12accordance with this Act in the major educational area of
13alcohol and drug use and abuse shall include classroom
14instruction in grades 5 through 12. The instruction, which
15shall include matters relating to both the physical and legal
16effects and ramifications of drug and substance abuse, shall be
17integrated into existing curricula; and the State Board of
18Education shall develop and make available to all elementary
19and secondary schools in this State instructional materials and
20guidelines which will assist the schools in incorporating the
21instruction into their existing curricula. In addition, school
22districts may offer, as part of existing curricula during the
23school day or as part of an after school program, support
24services and instruction for pupils or pupils whose parent,
25parents, or guardians are chemically dependent.
26(Source: P.A. 96-128, eff. 1-1-10; 96-328, eff. 8-11-09;

 

 

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196-383, eff. 1-1-10; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10; 97-1147, eff.
21-24-13.)
 
3    (105 ILCS 110/3.10 new)
4    Sec. 3.10. Policy on teen dating violence.
5    (a) As used in this Section:
6    "Dating" or "dating relationship" means an ongoing social
7relationship of a romantic or intimate nature between 2
8persons. "Dating" or "dating relationship" does not include a
9casual relationship or ordinary fraternization between 2
10persons in a business or social context.
11    "Teen dating violence" means either of the following:
12        (1) A pattern of behavior in which a person uses or
13    threatens to use physical, mental, or emotional abuse to
14    control another person who is in a dating relationship with
15    the person, where one or both persons are 13 to 19 years of
16    age.
17        (2) Behavior by which a person uses or threatens to use
18    sexual violence against another person who is in a dating
19    relationship with the person, where one or both persons are
20    13 to 19 years of age.
21    (b) The school board of each public school district in this
22State shall adopt a policy that does all of the following:
23        (1) States that teen dating violence is unacceptable
24    and is prohibited and that each student has the right to a
25    safe learning environment.

 

 

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1        (2) Incorporates age-appropriate education about teen
2    dating violence into new or existing training programs for
3    students in grades 7 through 12 and school employees, as
4    recommended by the school officials identified under
5    subdivision (4) of this subsection (b).
6        (3) Establishes procedures for the manner in which
7    employees of a school are to respond to incidents of teen
8    dating violence that take place at the school, on school
9    grounds, at school-sponsored activities, or in vehicles
10    used for school-provided transportation.
11        (4) Identifies by job title the school officials who
12    are responsible for receiving reports related to teen
13    dating violence.
14        (5) Notifies students and parents of the teen dating
15    violence policy adopted by the board.
 
16    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
172013.