Full Text of HB3491 95th General Assembly
HB3491 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB3491
Introduced 2/28/2007, by Rep. Charles E. Jefferson 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. Provides that the school board of each public elementary and secondary school in the State shall require (instead of encourage) all teachers and other school personnel to acquire, develop, and maintain the knowledge and skills necessary to properly administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Makes related changes.
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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. The school board of each public | 10 |
| elementary and secondary school in the State shall require all | 11 |
| teachers and other school personnel to acquire, develop, and | 12 |
| maintain the knowledge and skills necessary to properly | 13 |
| administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
The school board of | 14 |
| each
public elementary and secondary school in the State
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| encourage all teachers and other school personnel to acquire,
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| develop, and maintain the knowledge and skills necessary to | 17 |
| properly
administer other life-saving techniques, including | 18 |
| without limitation the
Heimlich maneuver and rescue breathing.
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| The training shall be in
accordance with standards of the
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| American Red Cross, the American Heart Association, or another | 21 |
| nationally
recognized certifying organization.
A school board | 22 |
| may use the
services of non-governmental entities whose | 23 |
| personnel have expertise in
life-saving techniques to instruct | 24 |
| teachers and other school personnel in
these techniques. Each | 25 |
| school board
is encouraged to have in
its employ, or on its | 26 |
| volunteer staff, at least one person who is certified, by
the |
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| American Red Cross or by another qualified certifying agency,
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| as qualified to administer first aid and
cardiopulmonary | 3 |
| resuscitation . In addition, each school board is authorized to
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| allocate appropriate portions of its institute or inservice | 5 |
| days to conduct
training programs for teachers and other school | 6 |
| personnel who have expressed an
interest in becoming qualified | 7 |
| to administer emergency first aid or who are required to become | 8 |
| qualified to administer
cardiopulmonary resuscitation. School | 9 |
| boards are urged to
encourage their teachers and other school | 10 |
| personnel who coach school athletic
programs and other | 11 |
| extracurricular school activities to acquire, develop, and
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| maintain the knowledge and skills necessary to properly | 13 |
| administer first aid
and cardiopulmonary resuscitation in | 14 |
| accordance with standards and requirements
established by the | 15 |
| American Red Cross or another qualified certifying agency.
No | 16 |
| pupil shall be
required to take or participate in any class or | 17 |
| course on AIDS or family
life instruction if his parent or | 18 |
| guardian submits written objection
thereto, and refusal to take | 19 |
| or participate in the course or program shall
not be reason for | 20 |
| suspension or expulsion of the pupil.
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| Curricula developed under programs established in | 22 |
| accordance with this
Act in the major educational area of | 23 |
| alcohol and drug use and abuse shall
include classroom | 24 |
| instruction in grades 5 through 12. The instruction,
which | 25 |
| shall include matters relating to both the physical and legal | 26 |
| effects
and ramifications of drug and substance abuse, shall be |
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| integrated into
existing curricula; and the State Board of | 2 |
| Education shall develop and make
available to all elementary | 3 |
| and secondary schools in this State
instructional materials and | 4 |
| guidelines which will assist the schools in
incorporating the | 5 |
| instruction into their existing curricula. In
addition, school | 6 |
| districts may offer, as part of existing curricula during
the | 7 |
| school day or as part of an after school program, support | 8 |
| services and
instruction for pupils or pupils whose parent, | 9 |
| parents, or guardians are
chemically dependent.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-933, eff. 6-26-06.)
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