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 1        AN ACT regarding education.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section    5.    The   Critical   Health   Problems   and
 5    Comprehensive Health Education Act  is  amended  by  changing
 6    Section 3 as follows:

 7        (105 ILCS 110/3) (from Ch. 122, par. 863)
 8        Sec.  3.  Comprehensive  Health  Education  Program.  The
 9    program  established under this Act shall include, but not be
10    limited to, the following major educational areas as a  basis
11    for curricula in all elementary and secondary schools in this
12    State:   human   ecology   and   health,   human  growth  and
13    development,  the  emotional,  psychological,  physiological,
14    hygienic  and  social  responsibilities   of   family   life,
15    including  sexual  abstinence  until marriage, prevention and
16    control of disease, including instruction in grades 6 through
17    12 on the prevention, transmission  and  spread  of  HIV/AIDS
18    AIDS,  public  and  environmental  health,  consumer  health,
19    safety  education  and  disaster  and  terrorism preparedness
20    survival, mental health and illness (including instruction in
21    secondary  schools  on  clinical   depression   and   suicide
22    prevention),  personal  health habits, alcohol, drug use, and
23    abuse  including  the  medical  and  legal  ramifications  of
24    alcohol, drug,  and  tobacco  use,  abuse  during  pregnancy,
25    sexual  abstinence until marriage, tobacco, nutrition, organ,
26    tissue,   and   blood   donation,    and    dental    health.
27    Notwithstanding  the  above  educational areas, the following
28    areas may also be included as a basis for  curricula  in  all
29    elementary  and  secondary schools in this State: basic first
30    aid  (including,  but   not   limited   to,   cardiopulmonary
31    resuscitation  and  the  Heimlich maneuver), early prevention
 
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 1    and detection of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and
 2    the prevention of child  abuse,  neglect,  and  suicide.  The
 3    school  board  of each public elementary and secondary school
 4    in the State shall encourage all teachers  and  other  school
 5    personnel to acquire, develop, and maintain the knowledge and
 6    skills   necessary   to   properly   administer   life-saving
 7    techniques,   including   without   limitation  the  Heimlich
 8    maneuver and rescue  breathing.  The  training  shall  be  in
 9    accordance  with  standards  of  the  American Red Cross, the
10    American Heart Association, or another nationally  recognized
11    certifying organization.  A school board may use the services
12    of  non-governmental  entities whose personnel have expertise
13    in life-saving techniques  to  instruct  teachers  and  other
14    school  personnel  in these techniques.  Each school board is
15    encouraged to have in its employ, or on its volunteer  staff,
16    at  least  one  person  who is certified, by the American Red
17    Cross or by another qualified certifying agency, as qualified
18    to administer first aid  and  cardiopulmonary  resuscitation.
19    In  addition,  each  school  board  is authorized to allocate
20    appropriate portions of its institute or  inservice  days  to
21    conduct  training  programs  for  teachers  and  other school
22    personnel  who  have  expressed  an  interest   in   becoming
23    qualified    to    administer    emergency   first   aid   or
24    cardiopulmonary resuscitation.  School boards  are  urged  to
25    encourage their teachers and other school personnel who coach
26    school  athletic  programs  and  other extracurricular school
27    activities to acquire, develop, and  maintain  the  knowledge
28    and  skills  necessary  to  properly administer first aid and
29    cardiopulmonary resuscitation in  accordance  with  standards
30    and  requirements  established  by  the American Red Cross or
31    another  qualified  certifying  agency.  No  pupil  shall  be
32    required to take or participate in any  class  or  course  on
33    AIDS  or  family  life  instruction if his parent or guardian
34    submits written objection thereto, and  refusal  to  take  or
 
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 1    participate  in the course or program shall not be reason for
 2    suspension or expulsion of the pupil.
 3        Curricula  developed  under   programs   established   in
 4    accordance  with  this  Act  in the major educational area of
 5    alcohol and  drug  use  and  abuse  shall  include  classroom
 6    instruction  in  grades  5 through 12. The instruction, which
 7    shall include matters relating to both the physical and legal
 8    effects and ramifications of drug and substance abuse,  shall
 9    be integrated into existing curricula; and the State Board of
10    Education  shall develop and make available to all elementary
11    and secondary schools in this State  instructional  materials
12    and guidelines which will assist the schools in incorporating
13    the  instruction into their existing curricula.  In addition,
14    school districts may offer, as  part  of  existing  curricula
15    during  the school day or as part of an after school program,
16    support services and instruction for pupils or  pupils  whose
17    parent, parents, or guardians are chemically dependent.
18    (Source: P.A. 92-23, eff. 7-1-01.)