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HB4314 Engrossed |
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LRB095 15401 KBJ 41393 b |
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| AN ACT concerning public health.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Communicable Disease Prevention Act is |
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| amended by changing Section 2a as follows:
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| (410 ILCS 315/2a) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 22.12a)
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| Sec. 2a. (Blank). Whenever a child of school age is |
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| reported to the Illinois
Department of Public Health or a local |
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| health department as having been
diagnosed as having acquired |
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| immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or
AIDS-related complex |
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| (ARC) or as having been shown to have been exposed to
human |
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| immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or any other identified causative |
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| agent
of AIDS by testing positive on a Western Blot Assay or |
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| more reliable test,
such department shall give prompt and |
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| confidential notice of the identity
of the child to the |
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| principal of the school in which the child is enrolled.
If the |
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| child is enrolled in a public school, the
principal shall |
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| disclose the identity of the child to the
superintendent of the |
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| school district in which the child resides.
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| The principal may, as necessary, disclose the identity of |
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| an infected child
to:
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| (1) the school nurse at that school;
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| (2) the classroom
teachers in whose classes
the child is |