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SB3214 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  
  

 


 
98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
SB3214

 

Introduced 2/11/2014, by Sen. Dave Syverson

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 110/3

    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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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive
5Health Education Act is amended by changing Section 3 as
6follows:
 
7    (105 ILCS 110/3)
8    Sec. 3. Comprehensive Health Education Program. The
9program established under this Act shall include, but not be
10limited to, the following major educational areas as a basis
11for curricula in all elementary and secondary schools in this
12State: human ecology and health, human growth and development,
13the emotional, psychological, physiological, hygienic and
14social responsibilities of family life, including sexual
15abstinence until marriage, prevention and control of disease,
16including instruction in grades 6 through 12 on the prevention,
17transmission and spread of AIDS, age-appropriate sexual abuse
18and assault awareness and prevention education in grades
19pre-kindergarten through 12, public and environmental health,
20consumer health, safety education and disaster survival,
21mental health and illness, personal health habits, alcohol,
22drug use, and abuse including the medical and legal
23ramifications of alcohol, drug, and tobacco use, abuse during

 

 

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1pregnancy, evidence-based and medically accurate information
2regarding sexual abstinence, tobacco, nutrition, and dental
3health. The program shall also provide course material and
4instruction to advise pupils of the Abandoned Newborn Infant
5Protection Act. The program shall include information about
6cancer, including without limitation types of cancer, signs and
7symptoms, risk factors, the importance of early prevention and
8detection, and information on where to go for help.
9Notwithstanding the above educational areas, the following
10areas may also be included as a basis for curricula in all
11elementary and secondary schools in this State: basic first aid
12(including, but not limited to, cardiopulmonary resuscitation,
13and the Heimlich maneuver, and automated external
14defibrillators), heart disease, diabetes, stroke, the
15prevention of child abuse, neglect, and suicide, and teen
16dating violence in grades 7 through 12.
17    The school board of each public elementary and secondary
18school in the State shall encourage all teachers and other
19school personnel to acquire, develop, and maintain the
20knowledge and skills necessary to properly administer
21life-saving techniques, including without limitation the
22Heimlich maneuver and rescue breathing. The training shall be
23in accordance with standards of the American Red Cross, the
24American Heart Association, or another nationally recognized
25certifying organization. A school board may use the services of
26non-governmental entities whose personnel have expertise in

 

 

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1life-saving techniques to instruct teachers and other school
2personnel in these techniques. Each school board is encouraged
3to have in its employ, or on its volunteer staff, at least one
4person who is certified, by the American Red Cross or by
5another qualified certifying agency, as qualified to
6administer first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In
7addition, each school board is authorized to allocate
8appropriate portions of its institute or inservice days to
9conduct training programs for teachers and other school
10personnel who have expressed an interest in becoming qualified
11to administer emergency first aid or cardiopulmonary
12resuscitation. School boards are urged to encourage their
13teachers and other school personnel who coach school athletic
14programs and other extracurricular school activities to
15acquire, develop, and maintain the knowledge and skills
16necessary to properly administer first aid and cardiopulmonary
17resuscitation in accordance with standards and requirements
18established by the American Red Cross or another qualified
19certifying agency. Subject to appropriation, the State Board of
20Education shall establish and administer a matching grant
21program to pay for half of the cost that a school district
22incurs in training those teachers and other school personnel
23who express an interest in becoming qualified to administer
24cardiopulmonary resuscitation (which training must be in
25accordance with standards of the American Red Cross, the
26American Heart Association, or another nationally recognized

 

 

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1certifying organization) or in learning how to use an automated
2external defibrillator. A school district that applies for a
3grant must demonstrate that it has funds to pay half of the
4cost of the training for which matching grant money is sought.
5The State Board of Education shall award the grants on a
6first-come, first-serve basis.
7    No pupil shall be required to take or participate in any
8class or course on AIDS or family life instruction if his
9parent or guardian submits written objection thereto, and
10refusal to take or participate in the course or program shall
11not be reason for suspension or expulsion of the pupil.
12    Curricula developed under programs established in
13accordance with this Act in the major educational area of
14alcohol and drug use and abuse shall include classroom
15instruction in grades 5 through 12. The instruction, which
16shall include matters relating to both the physical and legal
17effects and ramifications of drug and substance abuse, shall be
18integrated into existing curricula; and the State Board of
19Education shall develop and make available to all elementary
20and secondary schools in this State instructional materials and
21guidelines which will assist the schools in incorporating the
22instruction into their existing curricula. In addition, school
23districts may offer, as part of existing curricula during the
24school day or as part of an after school program, support
25services and instruction for pupils or pupils whose parent,
26parents, 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;
298-441, eff. 1-1-14; revised 9-9-13.)
 
3    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4becoming law.