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Rep. LaToya Greenwood
Filed: 4/20/2021
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1162
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1162 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section |
| 5 | | 27-13.2 as follows:
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| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/27-13.2) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-13.2)
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| 7 | | Sec. 27-13.2. Required instruction. In every public school |
| 8 | | there
shall be instruction, study, and discussion of effective |
| 9 | | methods by which
pupils may recognize the danger of and avoid |
| 10 | | abduction, and in every
public school maintaining any of |
| 11 | | grades kindergarten through 8 there shall
be, for such grades, |
| 12 | | instruction, study, and discussion of effective
methods for |
| 13 | | the prevention and avoidance of drugs and the dangers of |
| 14 | | opioid drug and substance abuse.
School boards may
include |
| 15 | | such required instruction, study and discussion in the courses |
| 16 | | of
study regularly taught in the public schools of their |
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| 1 | | respective districts;
provided, however, that such instruction |
| 2 | | shall be given each year to all
pupils in grades kindergarten |
| 3 | | through 8. The State Superintendent of
Education may prepare |
| 4 | | and make available to all public and non-public
schools |
| 5 | | instructional materials which may be used by such schools
as |
| 6 | | guidelines for development of a program of instruction
under |
| 7 | | this Section; provided, however, that each school board shall
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| 8 | | itself determine the minimum amount of instruction time which |
| 9 | | shall qualify
as a program of instruction
which will
satisfy |
| 10 | | the requirements of this Section.
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| 11 | | The State Superintendent of Education, in cooperation with |
| 12 | | the
Department of Children and Family Services, shall prepare |
| 13 | | and disseminate
to all public schools and non-public schools, |
| 14 | | information on instructional
materials and programs about |
| 15 | | child sexual abuse which may be used by such
schools for their |
| 16 | | own or community programs. Such information may also be
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| 17 | | disseminated by such schools to parents.
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| 18 | | Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section, |
| 19 | | no pupil in
any of grades kindergarten through 8 shall be |
| 20 | | required to take or
participate in any class or course |
| 21 | | providing instruction in recognizing and
avoiding sexual abuse |
| 22 | | if the parent or guardian of the pupil submits
written |
| 23 | | objection thereto; and refusal to take or participate in such |
| 24 | | class
or course after such written objection is made shall not |
| 25 | | be reason for
failing, suspending or expelling such pupil. |
| 26 | | Each school board intending
to offer any such class or course |