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92_HB0242
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1 AN ACT regarding education.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Critical Health Problems and
5 Comprehensive Health Education Act is amended by changing
6 Section 3 as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 110/3) (from Ch. 122, par. 863)
8 Sec. 3. Comprehensive Health Education Program. The
9 program established under this Act shall include, but not be
10 limited to, the following major educational areas as a basis
11 for curricula in all elementary and secondary schools in this
12 State: human ecology and health, human growth and
13 development, the emotional, psychological, physiological,
14 hygienic and social responsibilities of family life,
15 including sexual abstinence until marriage, prevention and
16 control of disease, including instruction in grades 6 through
17 12 on the prevention, transmission and spread of AIDS, public
18 and environmental health, consumer health, safety education
19 and disaster survival, mental health and illness, including
20 instruction in secondary schools on clinical depression and
21 suicide prevention, personal health habits, alcohol, drug
22 use, and abuse including the medical and legal ramifications
23 of alcohol, drug, and tobacco use, abuse during pregnancy,
24 sexual abstinence until marriage, tobacco, nutrition, and
25 dental health. Notwithstanding the above educational areas,
26 the following areas may also be included as a basis for
27 curricula in all elementary and secondary schools in this
28 State: basic first aid (including, but not limited to,
29 cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the Heimlich maneuver),
30 early prevention and detection of cancer, heart disease,
31 diabetes, stroke, and the prevention of child abuse, neglect,
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1 and suicide. The school board of each public elementary and
2 secondary school in the State is encouraged to have in its
3 employ, or on its volunteer staff, at least one person who is
4 certified, by the American Red Cross or by another qualified
5 certifying agency, as qualified to administer first aid and
6 cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In addition, each school
7 board is authorized to allocate appropriate portions of its
8 institute or inservice days to conduct training programs for
9 teachers and other school personnel who have expressed an
10 interest in becoming qualified to administer emergency first
11 aid or cardiopulmonary resuscitation. School boards are
12 urged to encourage their teachers and other school personnel
13 who coach school athletic programs and other extracurricular
14 school activities to acquire, develop, and maintain the
15 knowledge and skills necessary to properly administer first
16 aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation in accordance with
17 standards and requirements established by the American Red
18 Cross or another qualified certifying agency. No pupil shall
19 be required to take or participate in any class or course on
20 AIDS or family life instruction if his parent or guardian
21 submits written objection thereto, and refusal to take or
22 participate in the course or program shall not be reason for
23 suspension or expulsion of the pupil.
24 Curricula developed under programs established in
25 accordance with this Act in the major educational area of
26 alcohol and drug use and abuse shall include classroom
27 instruction in grades 5 through 12. The instruction, which
28 shall include matters relating to both the physical and legal
29 effects and ramifications of drug and substance abuse, shall
30 be integrated into existing curricula; and the State Board of
31 Education shall develop and make available to all elementary
32 and secondary schools in this State instructional materials
33 and guidelines which will assist the schools in incorporating
34 the instruction into their existing curricula. In addition,
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1 school districts may offer, as part of existing curricula
2 during the school day or as part of an after school program,
3 support services and instruction for pupils or pupils whose
4 parent, parents, or guardians are chemically dependent.
5 (Source: P.A. 90-566, eff. 1-2-98.)