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90_HB2493

      105 ILCS 5/27-23.5 new
          Amends the School Code.  Requires  each  school  district
      maintaining  grades 9 and 10 to include in its curriculum and
      teach to the students  of  either  such  grade  one  unit  of
      instruction   on   organ/tissue   donor  and  transplantation
      programs.  Requires the regional superintendent of schools to
      make available to those districts information and  data  that
      the  districts  may  use  in  developing the required unit of
      instruction.  Provides that each school board determines  the
      minimum  amount  of  instructional time that qualifies as the
      required unit of instruction.  Effective July 1, 1998.
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 1        AN ACT  to  amend  the  School  Code  by  adding  Section
 2    27-23.5.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The School Code is amended by adding  Section
 6    27-23.5 as follows:
 7        (105 ILCS 5/27-23.5 new)
 8        Sec.  27-23.5.  Organ/tissue  donor  and  transplantation
 9    programs.   Each  school district that maintains grades 9 and
10    10 shall include in its curriculum and teach to the  students
11    of  either such grade one unit of instruction on organ/tissue
12    donor and transplantation programs.
13        The regional superintendent of schools in which a  school
14    district  that  maintains  grades  9  and 10 is located shall
15    obtain and make available to the school board of the district
16    information and data that may be  used  by  the  district  in
17    developing   a   unit  of  instruction  under  this  Section.
18    However, each school board shall determine the minimum amount
19    of instructional  time  that  shall  qualify  as  a  unit  of
20    instruction satisfying the requirements of this Section.
21        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect July
22    1, 1998.

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