HR0148 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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HOUSE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The House of Representatives understands the dangers that exposure to the manufacture of methamphetamine and the use of that substance by the parents of children pose to the physical and mental well-being of those children as well as to others who are in a supervisory position to those children; and

WHEREAS, Public school personnel are mandated reporters under the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act; and

WHEREAS, The State Board of Education has power to supervise all the public schools in the State; and

WHEREAS, Illinois law recognizes that teachers stand in loco parentis to a child during his or her attendance at school; and

WHEREAS, The adoption of internal protocols by the State Board of Education for employees of public schools that will aid these employees in recognizing sites in which methamphetamine is being manufactured and in recognizing how to identify methamphetamine addicts and children of methamphetamine addicts may aid in their protection and in the protection of children exposed to methamphetamine or the use of methamphetamine by their parents and may assist in the removal of these children from that hazardous environment; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge the State Board of Education to adopt protocols for employees of public schools that will aid these employees in recognizing sites in which methamphetamine is being manufactured and in recognizing how to identify methamphetamine addicts and children of methamphetamine addicts; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be presented to the chairperson of the State Board of Education.