99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB1793

 

Introduced 2/20/2015, by Sen. Michael E. Hastings

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 5/2-3.163 new

    Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to (i) develop a model youth suicide awareness and prevention policy; (ii) compile, develop, and post on its Internet website recommended guidelines and educational materials for professional educator training and recommended resources and age-appropriate educational materials on youth suicide awareness and prevention; and (iii) develop a model youth suicide awareness and prevention curriculum and make such curriculum available to all school districts and, upon request, to nonpublic schools. Requires each school board to (i) adopt an age-appropriate youth suicide awareness and prevention policy and (ii) require 4 hours of training in youth suicide awareness and prevention every 5 years for professional educators in school buildings serving students in any of grades 6 through 12. Effective immediately.


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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 concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section
52-3.163 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/2-3.163 new)
7    Sec. 2-3.163. Youth suicide awareness and prevention.
8    (a) The State Board of Education shall do all of the
9following:
10        (1) In consultation with a youth suicide prevention
11    organization operating in this State, develop a model youth
12    suicide awareness and prevention policy that is consistent
13    with subsection (b) of this Section.
14        (2) Compile, develop, and post on its publicly
15    accessible Internet website both of the following, which
16    may include materials already publicly available:
17            (A) Recommended guidelines and educational
18        materials for the training required under subsection
19        (c) of this Section.
20            (B) Recommended resources and age-appropriate
21        educational materials on youth suicide awareness and
22        prevention.
23        (3) Develop a model youth suicide awareness and

 

 

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1    prevention curriculum and make such curriculum available
2    to all school districts and, upon request, to nonpublic
3    schools. A school district may incorporate such curriculum
4    into its existing instructional program pursuant to the
5    school district's youth suicide awareness and prevention
6    policy under subsection (c) of this Section.
7    (b) The model policy developed by the State Board of
8Education under subsection (a) of this Section and any policy
9adopted by a school board under subsection (c) of this Section
10shall include all of the following:
11        (1) A statement on youth suicide awareness and
12    prevention.
13        (2) Protocols for administering youth suicide
14    awareness and prevention education to staff and students.
15        (3) Methods of prevention, including procedures for
16    early identification and referral of students at risk of
17    suicide.
18        (4) Methods of intervention, including procedures that
19    address an emotional or mental health safety plan for
20    students identified as being at increased risk of suicide.
21        (5) Methods of responding to a student or staff suicide
22    or suicide attempt.
23        (6) Reporting procedures.
24        (7) Recommended resources on youth suicide awareness
25    and prevention programs, including current contact
26    information for such programs.

 

 

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1    (c) Beginning with the 2015-2016 school year, each school
2board shall do both of the following:
3        (1) Adopt an age-appropriate youth suicide awareness
4    and prevention policy consistent with subsection (b) of
5    this Section, inform each school district employee and the
6    parent or legal guardian of each student enrolled in the
7    school district of such policy, and post such policy on the
8    school district's publicly accessible Internet website.
9    The policy adopted by a school board under this subdivision
10    (1) may be based upon the model policy developed by the
11    State Board of Education under subsection (a) of this
12    Section.
13        (2) Require 4 hours of training in youth suicide
14    awareness and prevention every 5 years for professional
15    educators in school buildings serving students in any of
16    grades 6 through 12. Training under this subdivision (2)
17    may be used to satisfy a professional educator's continuing
18    professional development requirements. A school district
19    may use the materials made available by the State Board of
20    Education under subsection (b) of this Section to conduct
21    such training.
 
22    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
23becoming law.