Public Act 095-0371
 		





SB0395 Enrolled
LRB095 04939 RAS 25005 b






    AN ACT concerning education.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:

 
    Section 5. The School Code is amended  by changing Section 
27-17 as follows:
 



    (105 ILCS 5/27-17)  (from Ch. 122, par. 27-17)



    Sec. 27-17. Safety education. School boards of public 
schools and all boards in charge of
educational institutions 
supported wholly or partially by the State may
provide 
instruction in safety education in all grades and include such

instruction in the courses of study regularly taught therein.

    In this section "safety education" means and includes 
instruction in
the following:

    1.  automobile safety, including traffic regulations and 
highway
safety;

    2.  safety in the home;

    3.  safety in connection with recreational activities;

    4. safety in and around school buildings;

    5. safety in connection with vocational work or training; 
and

    6. cardio-pulmonary resuscitation for pupils enrolled in 
grades 9 through 11.

    Such boards may make suitable provisions in the schools and

institutions under their jurisdiction for instruction in 
safety
education for not less than 16 hours during each school 
year.

    The curriculum in all State universities shall contain an 
elective
course of instruction in safety education for teachers 
that is appropriate to the grade level of the teaching 
certificate , comprising at
least 48 fifty-minute periods or the 
equivalent thereof. This instruction may be by specific courses 
in safety education or may be incorporated in existing subjects 
taught in the university.


(Source: P.A. 80-1283.)

 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.




Effective Date:  8/23/2007