Public Act 101-0305
 
SB0459 EnrolledLRB101 04220 AXK 49228 b



    AN ACT concerning education.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: 



 
 
    Section 5. The Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive 
Health
Education Act is amended  by changing Section 3 as 
follows:
 
 

    (105 ILCS 110/3)

 
    Sec. 3. Comprehensive Health Education Program. The 
program established
under this Act shall include, but not be 
limited to, the following major
educational areas as a basis 
for curricula in all elementary and secondary
schools in this 
State: human ecology and health, human growth and
development, 
the emotional, psychological, physiological, hygienic and

social responsibilities of family life, including sexual 
abstinence until
marriage, prevention and control of disease, 
including instruction in
grades 6 through 12 on the prevention, 
transmission and spread of AIDS, age-appropriate sexual abuse 
and assault awareness and prevention education in grades 
pre-kindergarten through 12, public and environmental health, 
consumer health, safety education and
disaster survival, 
mental health and illness, personal health habits,
alcohol, 
drug use, and abuse including the medical and legal 
ramifications
of alcohol, drug, and tobacco use, abuse during 
pregnancy, evidence-based and medically accurate information 
regarding sexual
abstinence, tobacco, nutrition, and dental 
health. The instruction on mental health and illness must 
evaluate the multiple dimensions of health by reviewing the 
relationship between physical and mental health so as to 
enhance student understanding, attitudes, and behaviors that 
promote health, well-being, and human dignity. The program 
shall also provide course material and instruction to advise 
pupils of the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act.
The 
program shall include information about cancer, including 
without limitation types of cancer, signs and symptoms, risk 
factors, the importance of early prevention and detection, and 
information on where to go for help. Notwithstanding the above 
educational areas, the following areas may also
be included as 
a basis for curricula in all elementary and secondary
schools 
in this State: basic first aid (including, but not limited to,

cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the Heimlich maneuver), 
heart disease, diabetes, stroke, the
prevention of child abuse, 
neglect, and suicide, and teen dating violence in grades 7 
through 12. Beginning with the 2014-2015 school year, training 
on how to properly administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation 
(which training must be in accordance with standards of the 
American Red Cross, the American Heart Association, or another 
nationally recognized certifying organization) and how to use 
an automated external defibrillator shall be included as a 
basis for curricula in all secondary schools in this State. 
    The school board of each
public elementary and secondary 
school in the State
shall encourage all teachers and other 
school personnel to acquire,
develop, and maintain the 
knowledge and skills necessary to properly
administer 
life-saving techniques, including without limitation the

Heimlich maneuver and rescue breathing.
The training shall be 
in
accordance with standards of the
American Red Cross, the 
American Heart Association, or another nationally
recognized 
certifying organization.
 A school board may use the
services of 
non-governmental entities whose personnel have expertise in

life-saving techniques to instruct teachers and other school 
personnel in
these techniques.  Each school board
is encouraged 
to have in
its employ, or on its volunteer staff, at least one 
person who is certified, by
the American Red Cross or by 
another qualified certifying agency,
as qualified to 
administer first aid and
cardiopulmonary resuscitation.  In 
addition, each school board is authorized to
allocate 
appropriate portions of its institute or inservice days to 
conduct
training programs for teachers and other school 
personnel who have expressed an
interest in becoming qualified 
to administer emergency first aid or
cardiopulmonary 
resuscitation.  School boards are urged to
encourage their 
teachers and other school personnel who coach school athletic

programs and other extracurricular school activities to 
acquire, develop, and
maintain the knowledge and skills 
necessary to properly administer first aid
and cardiopulmonary 
resuscitation in accordance with standards and requirements

established by the American Red Cross or another qualified 
certifying agency. Subject to appropriation, the State Board of 
Education shall establish and administer a matching grant 
program to pay for half of the cost that a school district 
incurs in training those teachers and other school personnel 
who express an interest in becoming qualified to administer 
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (which training must be in

accordance with standards of the
American Red Cross, the 
American Heart Association, or another nationally
recognized 
certifying organization) or in learning how to use an automated 
external defibrillator.  A school district that applies for a 
grant must demonstrate that it has funds to pay half of the 
cost of the training for which matching grant money is sought.  
The State Board of Education shall award the grants on a 
first-come, first-serve basis.

    No pupil shall be
required to take or participate in any 
class or course on AIDS or family
life instruction or to 
receive training on how to properly administer cardiopulmonary 
resuscitation or how to use an automated external defibrillator 
if his or her parent or guardian submits written objection

thereto, and refusal to take or participate in the course or 
program or the training shall
not be reason for suspension or 
expulsion of the pupil.

    Curricula developed under programs established in 
accordance with this
Act in the major educational area of 
alcohol and drug use and abuse shall
include classroom 
instruction in grades 5 through 12. The instruction,
which 
shall include matters relating to both the physical and legal 
effects
and ramifications of drug and substance abuse, shall be 
integrated into
existing curricula; and the State Board of 
Education shall develop and make
available to all elementary 
and secondary schools in this State
instructional materials and 
guidelines which will assist the schools in
incorporating the 
instruction into their existing curricula.  In
addition, school 
districts may offer, as part of existing curricula during
the 
school day or as part of an after school program, support 
services and
instruction for pupils or pupils whose parent, 
parents, or guardians are
chemically dependent.

(Source: P.A. 97-1147, eff. 1-24-13; 98-190, eff. 8-6-13; 
98-441, eff. 1-1-14; 98-632, eff. 7-1-14; 98-756, eff. 
7-16-14.)