Public Act 103-0212
 
HB3932 EnrolledLRB103 30255 RJT 56683 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; the 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 and 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 and 
e-cigarettes and other vapor devices;  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 and must include 
how  and where to find mental health resources and specialized 
treatment in the State. 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. 
    Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year in grades 9 
through 12, the program shall include instruction, study, and 
discussion on the dangers of allergies. Information for the 
instruction, study, and discussion shall come from information 
provided by the Department of Public Health and the federal 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This instruction, 
study, and discussion shall include, at a minimum:
        (1) recognizing the signs and symptoms of an allergic 
    reaction, including anaphylaxis;
        (2) the steps to take to prevent exposure to 
    allergens; and
        (3) safe emergency epinephrine administration. 
    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. 101-305, eff. 1-1-20; 102-464, eff. 8-20-21; 
102-558, eff. 8-20-21; 102-1034, eff. 1-1-23.)