Sen. Michael W. Frerichs

Filed: 3/1/2007

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 395

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 395 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
5 27-17 as follows:
 
6     (105 ILCS 5/27-17)  (from Ch. 122, par. 27-17)
7     Sec. 27-17. Safety education. School boards of public
8 schools and all boards in charge of educational institutions
9 supported wholly or partially by the State may provide
10 instruction in safety education in all grades and include such
11 instruction in the courses of study regularly taught therein.
12     In this section "safety education" means and includes
13 instruction in the following:
14     1. automobile safety, including traffic regulations and
15 highway safety;
16     2. safety in the home;

 

 

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1     3. safety in connection with recreational activities;
2     4. safety in and around school buildings;
3     5. safety in connection with vocational work or training;
4 and
5     6. cardio-pulmonary resuscitation for pupils enrolled in
6 grades 9 through 11.
7     Such boards may make suitable provisions in the schools and
8 institutions under their jurisdiction for instruction in
9 safety education for not less than 16 hours during each school
10 year.
11     The curriculum in all State universities shall contain an
12 elective course of instruction in safety education for teachers
13 that is appropriate to the grade level of the teaching
14 certificate , comprising at least 48 fifty-minute periods or the
15 equivalent thereof. This instruction may be by specific courses
16 in safety education or may be incorporated in existing subjects
17 taught in the university.
18 (Source: P.A. 80-1283.)
 
19     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
20 becoming law.".