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90_SB1337
105 ILCS 5/27-23.5 new
Amends the School Code. Requires each school district
maintaining grades 9 and 10 to include in its curriculum and
teach to the students of either such grade one unit of
instruction on organ/tissue donor and transplantation
programs. Requires the regional superintendent of schools to
make available to those districts information and data that
the districts may use in developing the required unit of
instruction. Provides that each school board determines the
minimum amount of instructional time that qualifies as the
required unit of instruction. Effective July 1, 1998.
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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by adding Section
2 27-23.5.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section
6 27-23.5 as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/27-23.5 new)
8 Sec. 27-23.5. Organ/tissue donor and transplantation
9 programs. Each school district that maintains grades 9 and
10 10 shall include in its curriculum and teach to the students
11 of either such grade one unit of instruction on organ/tissue
12 donor and transplantation programs.
13 The regional superintendent of schools in which a school
14 district that maintains grades 9 and 10 is located shall
15 obtain and make available to the school board of the district
16 information and data that may be used by the district in
17 developing a unit of instruction under this Section.
18 However, each school board shall determine the minimum amount
19 of instructional time that shall qualify as a unit of
20 instruction satisfying the requirements of this Section.
21 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July
22 1, 1998.