Full Text of HB0258 95th General Assembly
HB0258 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB0258
Introduced 1/19/2007, by Rep. Michael K. Smith SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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105 ILCS 110/3 |
from Ch. 122, par. 863 |
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Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health
Education Act. Requires the State Board of Education to establish and administer a matching grant program to pay for half of the cost that a school district incurs in training those teachers and other school personnel who express an interest in becoming qualified to administer emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation or in learning how to use an automated external defibrillator.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive | 5 |
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Education Act is amended by changing Section 3 as | 6 |
| follows:
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| (105 ILCS 110/3) (from Ch. 122, par. 863)
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| 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
development, | 13 |
| the emotional, psychological, physiological, hygienic and
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| social responsibilities of family life, including sexual | 15 |
| abstinence until
marriage, prevention and control of disease, | 16 |
| including instruction in
grades 6 through 12 on the prevention, | 17 |
| transmission and spread of AIDS,
public and environmental | 18 |
| health, consumer health, safety education and
disaster | 19 |
| survival, mental health and illness, personal health habits,
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| alcohol, drug use, and abuse including the medical and legal | 21 |
| ramifications
of alcohol, drug, and tobacco use, abuse during | 22 |
| pregnancy, sexual
abstinence until marriage, tobacco, | 23 |
| nutrition, and dental health. The program shall also provide |
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| course material and instruction to advise pupils of the | 2 |
| Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act.
Notwithstanding the | 3 |
| above educational areas, the following areas may also
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| included as a basis for curricula in all elementary and | 5 |
| secondary
schools in this State: basic first aid (including, | 6 |
| but not limited to,
cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the | 7 |
| Heimlich maneuver), early prevention
and detection of cancer, | 8 |
| heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and the
prevention of child | 9 |
| abuse, neglect, and suicide.
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| The school board of each
public elementary and secondary | 11 |
| school in the State
shall encourage all teachers and other | 12 |
| school personnel to acquire,
develop, and maintain the | 13 |
| knowledge and skills necessary to properly
administer | 14 |
| life-saving techniques, including without limitation the
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| Heimlich maneuver and rescue breathing.
The training shall be | 16 |
| in
accordance with standards of the
American Red Cross, the | 17 |
| American Heart Association, or another nationally
recognized | 18 |
| certifying organization.
A school board may use the
services of | 19 |
| non-governmental entities whose personnel have expertise in
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| life-saving techniques to instruct teachers and other school | 21 |
| personnel in
these techniques. Each school board
is encouraged | 22 |
| to have in
its employ, or on its volunteer staff, at least one | 23 |
| person who is certified, by
the American Red Cross or by | 24 |
| another qualified certifying agency,
as qualified to | 25 |
| administer first aid and
cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In | 26 |
| addition, each school board is authorized to
allocate |
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| appropriate portions of its institute or inservice days to | 2 |
| conduct
training programs for teachers and other school | 3 |
| personnel who have expressed an
interest in becoming qualified | 4 |
| to administer emergency first aid or
cardiopulmonary | 5 |
| resuscitation. School boards are urged to
encourage their | 6 |
| teachers and other school personnel who coach school athletic
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| programs and other extracurricular school activities to | 8 |
| acquire, develop, and
maintain the knowledge and skills | 9 |
| necessary to properly administer first aid
and cardiopulmonary | 10 |
| resuscitation in accordance with standards and requirements
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| established by the American Red Cross or another qualified | 12 |
| certifying agency. Subject to appropriation, the State Board of | 13 |
| Education shall establish and administer a matching grant | 14 |
| program to pay for half of the cost that a school district | 15 |
| incurs in training those teachers and other school personnel | 16 |
| who express an interest in becoming qualified to administer | 17 |
| cardiopulmonary resuscitation (which training must be in
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| accordance with standards of the
American Red Cross, the | 19 |
| American Heart Association, or another nationally
recognized | 20 |
| certifying organization) or in learning how to use an automated | 21 |
| external defibrillator. A school district that applies for a | 22 |
| grant must demonstrate that it has funds to pay half of the | 23 |
| cost of the training for which matching grant money is sought. | 24 |
| The State Board of Education shall award the grants on a | 25 |
| first-come, first-serve basis.
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| No pupil shall be
required to take or participate in any |
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| class or course on AIDS or family
life instruction if his | 2 |
| parent or guardian submits written objection
thereto, and | 3 |
| refusal to take or participate in the course or program shall
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| not be reason for suspension or expulsion of the pupil.
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| Curricula developed under programs established in | 6 |
| accordance with this
Act in the major educational area of | 7 |
| alcohol and drug use and abuse shall
include classroom | 8 |
| instruction in grades 5 through 12. The instruction,
which | 9 |
| shall include matters relating to both the physical and legal | 10 |
| effects
and ramifications of drug and substance abuse, shall be | 11 |
| integrated into
existing curricula; and the State Board of | 12 |
| Education shall develop and make
available to all elementary | 13 |
| and secondary schools in this State
instructional materials and | 14 |
| guidelines which will assist the schools in
incorporating the | 15 |
| instruction into their existing curricula. In
addition, school | 16 |
| districts may offer, as part of existing curricula during
the | 17 |
| school day or as part of an after school program, support | 18 |
| services and
instruction for pupils or pupils whose parent, | 19 |
| parents, or guardians are
chemically dependent.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-933, eff. 6-26-06.)
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