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Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
Filed: 2/19/2009
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 281
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 281 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section |
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| 2-3.148 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.148 new) |
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| Sec. 2-3.148. Food allergy guidelines. |
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| (a) Not later than July 1, 2010, the State Board of |
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| Education, in conjunction with the Department of Public Health, |
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| shall develop and make available to each school board |
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| guidelines for the management of students with |
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| life-threatening food allergies. The guidelines shall include, |
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| but need not be limited to, the following: |
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| (1) education and training for school personnel who |
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| interact with students with life-threatening food |
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| allergies, such as school and school district |
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| administrators, teachers, school advisors and counselors, |
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| school social workers, school psychologists, school health |
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| personnel, and school nurses, on the management of students |
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| with life-threatening food allergies, including training |
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| related to the administration of medication with an |
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| auto-injector; |
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| (2) procedures for responding to life-threatening |
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| allergic reactions to food; |
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| (3) a process for the implementation of individualized |
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| health care and food allergy action plans for every student |
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| with a life-threatening food allergy; and |
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| (4) protocols to prevent exposure to food allergens. |
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| (b) Not later than January 1, 2011, each school board shall |
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| implement a policy based on the guidelines developed pursuant |
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| to subsection (a) of this Section for the management of |
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| students with life-threatening food allergies enrolled in the |
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| schools under its jurisdiction. Nothing in this subsection (b) |
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| is intended to invalidate school district policies that were |
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| implemented before the development of guidelines pursuant to |
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| subsection (a) of this Section as long as such policies are |
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| consistent with the guidelines developed pursuant to |
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| subsection (a) of this Section.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| becoming law.".
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