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[ Engrossed ][ House Amendment 001 ]

90_HB1272

      105 ILCS 110/3            from Ch. 122, par. 863
          Amends the Critical  Health  Problems  and  Comprehensive
      Health Education Act.  Urges school boards to encourage their
      teachers and other school personnel who coach school athletic
      programs  and  other  extracurricular  school  activities  to
      acquire,  develop,  and  maintain  the  knowledge  and skills
      necessary  to  administer  first  aid   and   cardiopulmonary
      resuscitation  in  accordance with standards and requirements
      established by the American  Red  Cross  or  other  qualified
      certifying agencies approved by the State Board of Education.
      Effective immediately.
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 1        AN   ACT  to  amend  the  Critical  Health  Problems  and
 2    Comprehensive Health Education Act by changing Section 3.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section    5.    The   Critical   Health   Problems   and
 6    Comprehensive Health Education Act  is  amended  by  changing
 7    Section 3 as follows:
 8        (105 ILCS 110/3) (from Ch. 122, par. 863)
 9        Sec.  3.  Comprehensive  Health  Education  Program.  The
10    program  established under this Act shall include, but not be
11    limited to, the following major educational areas as a  basis
12    for curricula in all elementary and secondary schools in this
13    State:   human   ecology   and   health,   human  growth  and
14    development,  the  emotional,  psychological,  physiological,
15    hygienic  and  social  responsibilities   of   family   life,
16    including  sexual  abstinence  until marriage, prevention and
17    control of disease, including instruction in grades 6 through
18    12 on the prevention, transmission and spread of AIDS, public
19    and environmental health, consumer health,  safety  education
20    and  disaster  survival,  mental health and illness, personal
21    health habits, alcohol, drug use,  and  abuse  including  the
22    medical and legal ramifications of alcohol, drug, and tobacco
23    use,   abuse   during   pregnancy,  sexual  abstinence  until
24    marriage,   tobacco,   nutrition,    and    dental    health.
25    Notwithstanding  the  above  educational areas, the following
26    areas may also be included as a basis for  curricula  in  all
27    elementary  and  secondary schools in this State: basic first
28    aid  (including,  but   not   limited   to,   cardiopulmonary
29    resuscitation  and  the  Heimlich maneuver), early prevention
30    and detection of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and
31    the prevention of child abuse, neglect, and  suicide.  School
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 1    boards are urged to encourage their teachers and other school
 2    personnel  who coach school athletic programs and other extra
 3    curricular  school  activities  to  acquire,   develop,   and
 4    maintain  the  knowledge  and  skills  necessary  to properly
 5    administer first aid  and  cardiopulmonary  resuscitation  in
 6    accordance with standards and requirements established by the
 7    American  Red  Cross  or  another qualified certifying agency
 8    approved by the State Board of Education. However,  No  pupil
 9    shall  be  required  to  take  or participate in any class or
10    course on AIDS or family life instruction if  his  parent  or
11    guardian  submits  written  objection thereto, and refusal to
12    take or participate in the course or  program  shall  not  be
13    reason for suspension or expulsion of the pupil.
14        Curricula   developed   under   programs  established  in
15    accordance with this Act in the  major  educational  area  of
16    alcohol  and  drug  use  and  abuse  shall  include classroom
17    instruction in grades 5 through 12.  The  instruction,  which
18    shall include matters relating to both the physical and legal
19    effects  and ramifications of drug and substance abuse, shall
20    be integrated into existing curricula; and the State Board of
21    Education shall develop and make available to all  elementary
22    and  secondary  schools in this State instructional materials
23    and guidelines which will assist the schools in incorporating
24    the instruction into their existing curricula.  In  addition,
25    school  districts  may  offer,  as part of existing curricula
26    during the school day or as part of an after school  program,
27    support  services  and instruction for pupils or pupils whose
28    parent, parents, or guardians are chemically  dependent.  76f
29    (Source: P.A. 86-878; 86-941; 86-1028; 87-584; 87-1095.)
30        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
31    becoming law.

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