Rep. Patrick J Verschoore

Filed: 3/24/2009

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4318

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4318 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive
5 Health Education Act is amended by changing Section 3 as
6 follows:
 
7     (105 ILCS 110/3)  (from Ch. 122, par. 863)
8     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
14 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,

 

 

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1 transmission and spread of AIDS, sexual assault awareness in
2 secondary schools, public and environmental health, consumer
3 health, safety education and disaster survival, mental health
4 and illness, personal health habits, alcohol, drug use, and
5 abuse including the medical and legal ramifications of alcohol,
6 drug, and tobacco use, abuse during pregnancy, sexual
7 abstinence until marriage, tobacco, nutrition, and dental
8 health. The program shall also provide course material and
9 instruction to advise pupils of the Abandoned Newborn Infant
10 Protection Act. The program shall include information about
11 cancer, including without limitation types of cancer, signs and
12 symptoms, risk factors, the importance of early prevention and
13 detection, and information on where to go for help.
14 Notwithstanding the above educational areas, the following
15 areas may also be included as a basis for curricula in all
16 elementary and secondary schools in this State: basic first aid
17 (including, but not limited to, cardiopulmonary resuscitation
18 and the Heimlich maneuver), early prevention and detection of
19 cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and the prevention of
20 child abuse, neglect, and suicide.
21     The school board of each public elementary and secondary
22 school in the State shall encourage all teachers and other
23 school personnel to acquire, develop, and maintain the
24 knowledge and skills necessary to properly administer
25 life-saving techniques, including without limitation the
26 Heimlich maneuver and rescue breathing. The training shall be

 

 

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1 in accordance with standards of the American Red Cross, the
2 American Heart Association, or another nationally recognized
3 certifying organization. A school board may use the services of
4 non-governmental entities whose personnel have expertise in
5 life-saving techniques to instruct teachers and other school
6 personnel in these techniques. Each school board is encouraged
7 to have in its employ, or on its volunteer staff, at least one
8 person who is certified, by the American Red Cross or by
9 another qualified certifying agency, as qualified to
10 administer first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In
11 addition, each school board is authorized to allocate
12 appropriate portions of its institute or inservice days to
13 conduct training programs for teachers and other school
14 personnel who have expressed an interest in becoming qualified
15 to administer emergency first aid or cardiopulmonary
16 resuscitation. School boards are urged to encourage their
17 teachers and other school personnel who coach school athletic
18 programs and other extracurricular school activities to
19 acquire, develop, and maintain the knowledge and skills
20 necessary to properly administer first aid and cardiopulmonary
21 resuscitation in accordance with standards and requirements
22 established by the American Red Cross or another qualified
23 certifying agency. Subject to appropriation, the State Board of
24 Education shall establish and administer a matching grant
25 program to pay for half of the cost that a school district
26 incurs in training those teachers and other school personnel

 

 

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1 who express an interest in becoming qualified to administer
2 cardiopulmonary resuscitation (which training must be in
3 accordance with standards of the American Red Cross, the
4 American Heart Association, or another nationally recognized
5 certifying organization) or in learning how to use an automated
6 external defibrillator. A school district that applies for a
7 grant must demonstrate that it has funds to pay half of the
8 cost of the training for which matching grant money is sought.
9 The State Board of Education shall award the grants on a
10 first-come, first-serve basis.
11     No pupil shall be required to take or participate in any
12 class or course on AIDS or family life instruction if his
13 parent or guardian submits written objection thereto, and
14 refusal to take or participate in the course or program shall
15 not be reason for suspension or expulsion of the pupil.
16     Curricula developed under programs established in
17 accordance with this Act in the major educational area of
18 alcohol and drug use and abuse shall include classroom
19 instruction in grades 5 through 12. The instruction, which
20 shall include matters relating to both the physical and legal
21 effects and ramifications of drug and substance abuse, shall be
22 integrated into existing curricula; and the State Board of
23 Education shall develop and make available to all elementary
24 and secondary schools in this State instructional materials and
25 guidelines which will assist the schools in incorporating the
26 instruction into their existing curricula. In addition, school

 

 

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1 districts may offer, as part of existing curricula during the
2 school day or as part of an after school program, support
3 services and instruction for pupils or pupils whose parent,
4 parents, or guardians are chemically dependent.
5 (Source: P.A. 94-933, eff. 6-26-06; 95-43, eff. 1-1-08; 95-764,
6 eff. 1-1-09; revised 9-5-08.)
 
7     Section 10. The Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act
8 is amended by adding Section 1.5 as follows:
 
9     (105 ILCS 25/1.5 new)
10     Sec. 1.5. Cancer screening. An association or other entity
11 that has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring,
12 regulating, or in any manner providing for interscholastic
13 athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools and
14 students within this State shall include a question asking
15 whether a student has a family history of cancer on any
16 pre-participation examination form given to students
17 participating or seeking to participate in interscholastic
18 athletics. The association or entity may require that a
19 testicular examination be conducted as a part of any physical
20 required for a male student's participation in interscholastic
21 athletics.".