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1 AN ACT concerning health.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 3. The School Code is amended by adding Sections
5 2-3.131, 10-23.13, and 34-18.21 as follows:
6 (105 ILCS 5/2-3.131 new)
7 Sec. 2-3.131. Medicaid matching funds claim. The State
8 Board of Education and the Department of Public Aid may enter
9 into an intergovernmental agreement whereby school districts
10 or their agents may claim Medicaid matching funds for
11 Medicaid-eligible children, as authorized by Section 1903 of
12 the Social Security Act.
13 (105 ILCS 5/10-23.13 new)
14 Sec. 10-23.13. Medicaid-eligible children; health care
15 resources. To access federally funded health care resources
16 if the school district provides early periodic screening and
17 diagnostic testing services, including screening and
18 diagnostic services, health care and treatment, preventive
19 health care, or any other measure, to correct or improve
20 health impairments of Medicaid-eligible children.
21 (105 ILCS 5/34-18.21 new)
22 Sec. 34-18.21. Medicaid-eligible children; health care
23 resources. If the school district provides early periodic
24 screening and diagnostic testing services, including
25 screening and diagnostic services, health care and treatment,
26 preventive health care, or any other measure, to correct or
27 improve health impairments of Medicaid-eligible children, the
28 school district may access federally funded health care
29 resources.
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1 Section 5. The Critical Health Problems and
2 Comprehensive Health Education Act is amended by changing
3 Section 3 as follows:
4 (105 ILCS 110/3) (from Ch. 122, par. 863)
5 Sec. 3. Comprehensive Health Education Program. The
6 program established under this Act shall include, but not be
7 limited to, the following major educational areas as a basis
8 for curricula in all elementary and secondary schools in this
9 State: human ecology and health, human growth and
10 development, the emotional, psychological, physiological,
11 hygienic and social responsibilities of family life,
12 including sexual abstinence until marriage, prevention and
13 control of disease, including instruction in grades 6 through
14 12 on the prevention, transmission and spread of AIDS, public
15 and environmental health, consumer health, safety education
16 and disaster survival, mental health and illness, including
17 instruction in secondary schools on clinical depression and
18 suicide prevention, personal health habits, alcohol, drug
19 use, and abuse including the medical and legal ramifications
20 of alcohol, drug, and tobacco use, abuse during pregnancy,
21 sexual abstinence until marriage, tobacco, nutrition, and
22 dental health. Notwithstanding the above educational areas,
23 the following areas may also be included as a basis for
24 curricula in all elementary and secondary schools in this
25 State: basic first aid (including, but not limited to,
26 cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the Heimlich maneuver),
27 early prevention and detection of cancer, heart disease,
28 diabetes, stroke, and the prevention of child abuse, neglect,
29 and suicide. The school board of each public elementary and
30 secondary school in the State is encouraged to have in its
31 employ, or on its volunteer staff, at least one person who is
32 certified, by the American Red Cross or by another qualified
33 certifying agency, as qualified to administer first aid and
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1 cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In addition, each school
2 board is authorized to allocate appropriate portions of its
3 institute or inservice days to conduct training programs for
4 teachers and other school personnel who have expressed an
5 interest in becoming qualified to administer emergency first
6 aid or cardiopulmonary resuscitation. School boards are
7 urged to encourage their teachers and other school personnel
8 who coach school athletic programs and other extracurricular
9 school activities to acquire, develop, and maintain the
10 knowledge and skills necessary to properly administer first
11 aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation in accordance with
12 standards and requirements established by the American Red
13 Cross or another qualified certifying agency. No pupil shall
14 be required to take or participate in any class or course on
15 AIDS or family life instruction if his parent or guardian
16 submits written objection thereto, and refusal to take or
17 participate in the course or program shall not be reason for
18 suspension or expulsion of the pupil.
19 Curricula developed under programs established in
20 accordance with this Act in the major educational area of
21 alcohol and drug use and abuse shall include classroom
22 instruction in grades 5 through 12. The instruction, which
23 shall include matters relating to both the physical and legal
24 effects and ramifications of drug and substance abuse, shall
25 be integrated into existing curricula; and the State Board of
26 Education shall develop and make available to all elementary
27 and secondary schools in this State instructional materials
28 and guidelines which will assist the schools in incorporating
29 the instruction into their existing curricula. In addition,
30 school districts may offer, as part of existing curricula
31 during the school day or as part of an after school program,
32 support services and instruction for pupils or pupils whose
33 parent, parents, or guardians are chemically dependent.
34 (Source: P.A. 90-566, eff. 1-2-98.)
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1 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
2 becoming law, except that the provisions changing Section 3
3 of the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health
4 Education Act take effect on January 1, 2001.
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