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| | 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB0017 Introduced 1/9/2013, by Rep. Mary E. Flowers SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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| 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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| | HB0017 | | LRB098 00169 NHT 30170 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections |
| 5 | | 10-21.11 and 34-18.13 as follows:
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| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/10-21.11) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-21.11)
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| 7 | | Sec. 10-21.11. Infectious disease policies and rules. To
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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 |