Full Text of SB3214 98th General Assembly
SB3214 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2013 and 2014 SB3214 Introduced 2/11/2014, by Sen. Dave Syverson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health
Education Act. Adds automated external defibrillators to first aid educational topics that may be included in a comprehensive health education program in all elementary and secondary
schools. Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning 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 Comprehensive | 5 | | Health
Education Act is amended by changing Section 3 as | 6 | | follows:
| 7 | | (105 ILCS 110/3)
| 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
development, | 13 | | the emotional, psychological, physiological, hygienic and
| 14 | | 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, age-appropriate sexual abuse | 18 | | and assault awareness and prevention education in grades | 19 | | pre-kindergarten through 12, public and environmental health, | 20 | | consumer health, safety education and
disaster survival, | 21 | | mental health and illness, personal health habits,
alcohol, | 22 | | drug use, and abuse including the medical and legal | 23 | | ramifications
of alcohol, drug, and tobacco use, abuse during |
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| 1 | | pregnancy, evidence-based and medically accurate information | 2 | | regarding sexual
abstinence, tobacco, nutrition, and dental | 3 | | health. The program shall also provide course material and | 4 | | instruction to advise pupils of the Abandoned Newborn Infant | 5 | | Protection Act.
The program shall include information about | 6 | | cancer, including without limitation types of cancer, signs and | 7 | | symptoms, risk factors, the importance of early prevention and | 8 | | detection, and information on where to go for help. | 9 | | Notwithstanding the above educational areas, the following | 10 | | areas may also
be included as a basis for curricula in all | 11 | | elementary and secondary
schools in this State: basic first aid | 12 | | (including, but not limited to,
cardiopulmonary resuscitation , | 13 | | and the Heimlich maneuver , and automated external | 14 | | defibrillators ), heart disease, diabetes, stroke, the
| 15 | | prevention of child abuse, neglect, and suicide, and teen | 16 | | dating violence in grades 7 through 12. | 17 | | The school board of each
public elementary and secondary | 18 | | school in the State
shall encourage all teachers and other | 19 | | school personnel to acquire,
develop, and maintain the | 20 | | knowledge and skills necessary to properly
administer | 21 | | life-saving techniques, including without limitation the
| 22 | | Heimlich maneuver and rescue breathing.
The training shall be | 23 | | in
accordance with standards of the
American Red Cross, the | 24 | | American Heart Association, or another nationally
recognized | 25 | | certifying organization.
A school board may use the
services of | 26 | | non-governmental entities whose personnel have expertise in
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| 1 | | life-saving techniques to instruct teachers and other school | 2 | | personnel in
these techniques. Each school board
is encouraged | 3 | | to have in
its employ, or on its volunteer staff, at least one | 4 | | person who is certified, by
the American Red Cross or by | 5 | | another qualified certifying agency,
as qualified to | 6 | | administer first aid and
cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In | 7 | | addition, each school board is authorized to
allocate | 8 | | appropriate portions of its institute or inservice days to | 9 | | conduct
training programs for teachers and other school | 10 | | personnel who have expressed an
interest in becoming qualified | 11 | | to administer emergency first aid or
cardiopulmonary | 12 | | resuscitation. School boards are urged to
encourage their | 13 | | teachers and other school personnel who coach school athletic
| 14 | | programs and other extracurricular school activities to | 15 | | acquire, develop, and
maintain the knowledge and skills | 16 | | necessary to properly administer first aid
and cardiopulmonary | 17 | | resuscitation in accordance with standards and requirements
| 18 | | established by the American Red Cross or another qualified | 19 | | certifying agency. Subject to appropriation, the State Board of | 20 | | Education shall establish and administer a matching grant | 21 | | program to pay for half of the cost that a school district | 22 | | incurs in training those teachers and other school personnel | 23 | | who express an interest in becoming qualified to administer | 24 | | cardiopulmonary resuscitation (which training must be in
| 25 | | accordance with standards of the
American Red Cross, the | 26 | | American Heart Association, or another nationally
recognized |
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| 1 | | certifying organization) or in learning how to use an automated | 2 | | external defibrillator. A school district that applies for a | 3 | | grant must demonstrate that it has funds to pay half of the | 4 | | cost of the training for which matching grant money is sought. | 5 | | The State Board of Education shall award the grants on a | 6 | | first-come, first-serve basis.
| 7 | | No pupil shall be
required to take or participate in any | 8 | | class or course on AIDS or family
life instruction if his | 9 | | parent or guardian submits written objection
thereto, and | 10 | | refusal to take or participate in the course or program shall
| 11 | | not be reason for suspension or expulsion of the pupil.
| 12 | | Curricula developed under programs established in | 13 | | accordance with this
Act in the major educational area of | 14 | | alcohol and drug use and abuse shall
include classroom | 15 | | instruction in grades 5 through 12. The instruction,
which | 16 | | shall include matters relating to both the physical and legal | 17 | | effects
and ramifications of drug and substance abuse, shall be | 18 | | integrated into
existing curricula; and the State Board of | 19 | | Education shall develop and make
available to all elementary | 20 | | and secondary schools in this State
instructional materials and | 21 | | guidelines which will assist the schools in
incorporating the | 22 | | instruction into their existing curricula. In
addition, school | 23 | | districts may offer, as part of existing curricula during
the | 24 | | school day or as part of an after school program, support | 25 | | services and
instruction for pupils or pupils whose parent, | 26 | | parents, or guardians are
chemically dependent.
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| 1 | | (Source: P.A. 97-1147, eff. 1-24-13; 98-190, eff. 8-6-13; | 2 | | 98-441, eff. 1-1-14; revised 9-9-13.)
| 3 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 4 | | becoming law.
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