Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
Filed: 2/15/2006
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2006
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2006 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; abduction; drug abuse; | ||||||
| 8 | sexual abuse.
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| 9 | (a) In every public school there
shall be instruction, | ||||||
| 10 | study and discussion of effective methods by which
pupils may | ||||||
| 11 | recognize the danger of and avoid abduction, and in every
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| 12 | public school maintaining any of grades kindergarten through 8 | ||||||
| 13 | there shall
be, for such grades, instruction, study, and | ||||||
| 14 | discussion of effective
methods for the prevention and | ||||||
| 15 | avoidance of drug and substance abuse.
School boards may
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| 16 | include such required instruction, study and discussion in the | ||||||
| 17 | courses of
study regularly taught in the public schools of | ||||||
| 18 | their respective districts;
provided, however, that such | ||||||
| 19 | instruction shall be given each year to all
pupils in grades | ||||||
| 20 | kindergarten through 8. | ||||||
| 21 | Each year public schools must provide age-appropriate | ||||||
| 22 | instruction to all pupils in grades kindergarten through 12 | ||||||
| 23 | concerning the dangers of methamphetamine use, abuse, and | ||||||
| 24 | manufacturing, which instruction may be included in the courses | ||||||
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| 1 | of study regularly taught in the public school.
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| 2 | The State Superintendent of
Education may prepare and make | ||||||
| 3 | available to all public and non-public
schools instructional | ||||||
| 4 | materials which may be used by such schools
as guidelines for | ||||||
| 5 | development of a program of instruction
under this Section; | ||||||
| 6 | provided, however, that each school board shall
itself | ||||||
| 7 | determine the minimum amount of instruction time which shall | ||||||
| 8 | qualify
as a program of instruction
which will
satisfy the | ||||||
| 9 | requirements of this Section.
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| 10 | (b) The State Superintendent of Education, in cooperation | ||||||
| 11 | with the
Department of Children and Family Services, shall | ||||||
| 12 | prepare and disseminate
to all public schools and non-public | ||||||
| 13 | schools, information on instructional
materials and programs | ||||||
| 14 | about child sexual abuse which may be used by such
schools for | ||||||
| 15 | their own or community programs. Such information may also be
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| 16 | disseminated by such schools to parents.
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| 17 | Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section, | ||||||
| 18 | no pupil in
any of grades kindergarten through 8 shall be | ||||||
| 19 | required to take or
participate in any class or course | ||||||
| 20 | providing instruction in recognizing and
avoiding sexual abuse | ||||||
| 21 | if the parent or guardian of the pupil submits
written | ||||||
| 22 | objection thereto; and refusal to take or participate in such | ||||||
| 23 | class
or course after such written objection is made shall not | ||||||
| 24 | be reason for
failing, suspending or expelling such pupil. Each | ||||||
| 25 | school board intending
to offer any such class or course to | ||||||
| 26 | pupils in any of grades kindergarten
through 8 shall give not | ||||||
| 27 | less than 5 days written notice to the parents or
guardians of | ||||||
| 28 | such pupils before commencing the class or course.
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| 29 | (Source: P.A. 86-788.)
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| 30 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | ||||||
| 31 | 2006.".
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