Full Text of HB0017 98th General Assembly
HB0017 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2013 and 2014 HB0017 Introduced 1/9/2013, by Rep. Mary E. Flowers SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 105 ILCS 5/10-21.11 | from Ch. 122, par. 10-21.11 | 105 ILCS 5/34-18.13 | from Ch. 122, par. 34-18.13 |
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Amends the School Code. Urges, under a school board's policies and rules concerning infectious disease, school boards to allow students to wash their hands with a soap or detergent if they wish to do so.
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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 School Code is amended by changing Sections | 5 | | 10-21.11 and 34-18.13 as follows:
| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/10-21.11) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-21.11)
| 7 | | Sec. 10-21.11. Infectious disease policies and rules. To
| 8 | | develop policies and adopt rules relating to the appropriate | 9 | | manner of
managing children with chronic infectious diseases, | 10 | | not inconsistent with
guidelines published by the State Board | 11 | | of Education and the Illinois
Department of Public Health. Such | 12 | | policies and rules must include
evaluation of students with a | 13 | | chronic infectious disease on an individual
case-by-case | 14 | | basis, and may include different provisions for different age
| 15 | | groups, classes of instruction, types of educational | 16 | | institution,
and other reasonable classifications,
as the | 17 | | school board may find appropriate. School boards are urged, | 18 | | under these policies and rules, to allow students to wash their | 19 | | hands with a soap or detergent if they wish to do so.
| 20 | | This requirement applies to all school districts and public | 21 | | schools of
this State, including special charter districts, | 22 | | Department of Corrections
school districts, laboratory schools | 23 | | operated by the governing board of a
public university, and |
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| 1 | | alternative schools operated by a regional
superintendent of | 2 | | schools.
| 3 | | (Source: P.A. 86-890; 86-1028.)
| 4 | | (105 ILCS 5/34-18.13) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-18.13)
| 5 | | Sec. 34-18.13. Infectious disease policies and rules. The | 6 | | Board of
Education shall develop policies and adopt rules | 7 | | relating to the
appropriate manner of managing children with | 8 | | chronic infectious diseases,
not inconsistent with guidelines | 9 | | published by the State Board of Education
and the Illinois | 10 | | Department of Public Health. Such policies and rules must
| 11 | | include evaluation of students with a chronic infectious | 12 | | disease on an
individual case-by-case basis, and may include | 13 | | different provisions for
different age groups, classes of | 14 | | instruction, types of educational
institution, and other | 15 | | reasonable classifications, as the Board may find
appropriate. | 16 | | The Board is urged, under these policies and rules, to allow | 17 | | students to wash their hands with a soap or detergent if they | 18 | | wish to do so.
| 19 | | (Source: P.A. 86-890; 86-1028.)
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