103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB3449
 
Introduced 2/17/2023, by Rep. Matt Hanson
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 



405 ILCS 49/15

     Amends the Children's Mental Health Act of 2003. In a provision requiring the Illinois State Board of Education to develop and implement a plan to incorporate social and emotional development standards  for the purpose of enhancing and measuring children's school readiness and ability to achieve academic success, provides that the plan shall be reviewed and revised periodically by the Board of Education at least once every 3 years. Requires the plan to include the teaching of grade-appropriate mental health topics, including, but not limited to, types of mental illness, how to find help for mental illness for peers and yourself, suicide prevention, substance abuse prevention, coping strategies, appropriate language to use surrounding mental health, and how to incorporate technology in a mental health crisis. In a provision requiring every Illinois school district to develop a policy for incorporating social and emotional development into the district's educational program, provides that the policy shall be reviewed and revised periodically by the school district to incorporate revised provisions of the Board of Education's social and emotional development standards.
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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1    AN ACT concerning mental health.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Children's Mental Health Act of 2003 is 
5amended  by changing Section 15 as follows:
 



6    (405 ILCS 49/15)



7    Sec. 15. Mental health and schools. 

8    (a) The Illinois State Board of Education shall develop 
9and implement a plan
to
incorporate social and emotional 
10development standards as part of the Illinois
Learning 
11Standards for the purpose of enhancing and measuring 
12children's school
readiness and ability to achieve academic 
13success.
The plan shall be submitted to the Governor, the 
14General Assembly, and the
Partnership by December 31, 2004.

15    (a-5) The plan provided for in subsection (a) shall be 
16reviewed and revised periodically by the Illinois State Board 
17of Education at least once every 3 years. Revisions to the plan 
18shall include the teaching of grade-appropriate mental health 
19topics, including, but not limited to, types of mental 
20illness, how to find help for mental illness for peers and 
21yourself, suicide prevention, substance abuse prevention, 
22coping strategies, appropriate language to use surrounding 
23mental health, and how to incorporate technology in a mental 
 
 
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1health crisis. 
2    (b) Every Illinois school district shall develop a policy 
3for incorporating
social and emotional development into the 
4district's educational program.
The policy shall address 
5teaching and assessing social and emotional
skills and 
6protocols for responding to children with social, emotional, 
7or
mental health problems, or a combination of such problems, 
8that impact
learning ability. School social workers may 
9implement a continuum of social and emotional education 
10programs and services in accordance with students' needs. Each 
11district must submit this policy to the Illinois State
Board 
12of Education by August 31, 2004. The policy shall be reviewed 
13and revised periodically by the school district to incorporate 
14revised provisions of the Illinois State Board of Education's 
15social and emotional development standards. 

16(Source: P.A. 98-338, eff. 8-13-13.)