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90_HB1273
105 ILCS 110/3 from Ch. 122, par. 863
Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive
Health Education Act. Encourages each school board to employ
or have on its volunteer staff at least one person who is
certified, by the American Red Cross or another qualified
certifying agency approved by the State Board of Education,
as qualified to administer first aid and cardiopulmonary
resuscitation. Authorizes school districts to use institute
or inservice days to conduct training programs for teachers
and other school personnel who are interested in becoming
qualified to administer emergency first aid or
cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Effective immediately.
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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 3. The Critical Health Problems and
6 Comprehensive Health Education Act is amended by changing
7 Section 3 as 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 Notwithstanding the above educational areas, the following
26 areas may also be included as a basis for curricula in all
27 elementary and secondary schools in this State: basic first
28 aid (including, but not limited to, cardiopulmonary
29 resuscitation and the Heimlich maneuver), early prevention
30 and detection of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and
31 the prevention of child abuse, neglect, and suicide. The
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1 school board of each public elementary and secondary school
2 in the State is encouraged to have in its employ, or on its
3 volunteer staff, at least one person who is certified, by the
4 American Red Cross or by another qualified certifying agency
5 approved by the State Board of Education, as qualified to
6 administer first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In
7 addition, each school board is authorized to allocate
8 appropriate portions of its institute or inservice days to
9 conduct training programs for teachers and other school
10 personnel who have expressed an interest in becoming
11 qualified to administer emergency first aid or
12 cardiopulmonary resuscitation. However, No pupil shall be
13 required to take or participate in any class or course on
14 AIDS or family life instruction if his parent or guardian
15 submits written objection thereto, and refusal to take or
16 participate in the course or program shall not be reason for
17 suspension or expulsion of the pupil.
18 Curricula developed under programs established in
19 accordance with this Act in the major educational area of
20 alcohol and drug use and abuse shall include classroom
21 instruction in grades 5 through 12. The instruction, which
22 shall include matters relating to both the physical and legal
23 effects and ramifications of drug and substance abuse, shall
24 be integrated into existing curricula; and the State Board of
25 Education shall develop and make available to all elementary
26 and secondary schools in this State instructional materials
27 and guidelines which will assist the schools in incorporating
28 the instruction into their existing curricula. In addition,
29 school districts may offer, as part of existing curricula
30 during the school day or as part of an after school program,
31 support services and instruction for pupils or pupils whose
32 parent, parents, or guardians are chemically dependent.
33 (Source: P.A. 86-878; 86-941; 86-1028; 87-584; 87-1095.)
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1 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
2 becoming law.