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[ House Amendment 001 ]

90_HB0208

      105 ILCS 110/3            from Ch. 122, par. 863
          Amends the Critical  Health  Problems  and  Comprehensive
      Health   Education  Act.  Provides  that  one  of  the  major
      educational areas in  which  the  State  Board  of  Education
      establishes  a  minimum amount of instruction time as part of
      the required comprehensive  health  education  program  of  a
      school   district   shall  include  instruction  and  applied
      training in grades kindergarten through 8 in basic first  aid
      and  cardiopulmonary  resuscitation.  Adds  that  the  school
      district  may  arrange  to  provide the applied training on a
      volunteer  basis  through  local   police   and   firefighter
      departments, emergency medical services agencies, and related
      service  organizations  such  as  the  American Red Cross and
      Save-a-Life Foundations.
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  Critical  Health  Problems   and
 2    Comprehensive Health Education Act by changing Section 3.
 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
14    development,  the  emotional,  psychological,  physiological,
15    hygienic  and  social  responsibilities   of   family   life,
16    including  sexual  abstinence  until marriage, prevention and
17    control of disease, including instruction in grades 6 through
18    12 on the prevention, transmission and spread of AIDS, public
19    and environmental health, consumer health,  safety  education
20    and  disaster  survival,  mental health and illness, personal
21    health habits, alcohol, drug use,  and  abuse  including  the
22    medical and legal ramifications of alcohol, drug, and tobacco
23    use,   abuse   during   pregnancy,  sexual  abstinence  until
24    marriage, tobacco, nutrition, and dental health.
25        Curricula  developed  under   programs   established   in
26    accordance  with  this  Act  in the major educational area of
27    safety  education  and  disaster   survival   shall   include
28    instruction  and  applied  training  in  grades  kindergarten
29    through   8   in   basic   first   aid   and  cardiopulmonary
30    resuscitation. The State Board of Education shall develop and
31    make available  to  all  elementary  schools  in  this  State
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 1    instructional materials and guidelines that will assist those
 2    schools   in   incorporating  the  required  instruction  and
 3    training into their existing curricula. In addition,  schools
 4    may  arrange  for the applied training in basic first aid and
 5    cardiopulmonary resuscitation to be provided on  a  volunteer
 6    basis  by local police and firefighter departments, emergency
 7    medical services agencies, and related service  organizations
 8    such  as  the  American Red Cross and Save-a-Life Foundation.
 9    First aid  (including  but  not  limited  to  cardiopulmonary
10    resuscitation and the Heimlich maneuver) may also be included
11    as  a  basis  for  curricula in all secondary schools in this
12    State.
13        Notwithstanding  the   above   educational   areas,   the
14    following areas may also be included as a basis for curricula
15    in  all elementary and secondary schools in this State: basic
16    first aid (including, but  not  limited  to,  cardiopulmonary
17    resuscitation  and  the  Heimlich maneuver), early prevention
18    and detection of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and
19    the prevention of child abuse, neglect, and suicide.
20        However,  no  pupil  shall  be  required   to   take   or
21    participate  in  any  class  or course on AIDS or family life
22    instruction  if  his  parent  or  guardian  submits   written
23    objection  thereto, and refusal to take or participate in the
24    course or program shall  not  be  reason  for  suspension  or
25    expulsion of the pupil.
26        Curricula   developed   under   programs  established  in
27    accordance with this Act in the  major  educational  area  of
28    alcohol  and  drug  use  and  abuse  shall  include classroom
29    instruction in grades 5 through 12.  The  instruction,  which
30    shall include matters relating to both the physical and legal
31    effects  and ramifications of drug and substance abuse, shall
32    be integrated into existing curricula; and the State Board of
33    Education shall develop and make available to all  elementary
34    and  secondary  schools in this State instructional materials
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 1    and guidelines which will assist the schools in incorporating
 2    the instruction into their existing curricula.  In  addition,
 3    school  districts  may  offer,  as part of existing curricula
 4    during the school day or as part of an after school  program,
 5    support  services  and instruction for pupils or pupils whose
 6    parent, parents, or guardians are chemically dependent.
 7    (Source: P.A. 86-878; 86-941; 86-1028; 87-584; 87-1095.)

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