Full Text of HB4442 100th General Assembly
HB4442eng 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Research-based prevention and wellness promotion | 3 | | efforts that strengthen positive parenting practices and | 4 | | enhance a child's resilience in the face of adversity have been | 5 | | shown to have a significant impact on a child's mental health, | 6 | | physical health, and educational outcomes; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | 8 | | define positive parenting skills as good communication, | 9 | | appropriate discipline, and responding to a child's physical | 10 | | and emotional needs; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, Studies in the last decade have shown that | 12 | | well-designed programs created to promote healthy cognitive, | 13 | | emotional, and social development can improve the prospects and | 14 | | quality of life of many children; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, Parenting programs have been shown to provide | 16 | | critical information on child development and safety, promote | 17 | | positive parenting behaviors, teach effective discipline | 18 | | strategies, alter adverse family patterns, and reduce levels of | 19 | | child abuse and neglect; and | 20 | | WHEREAS, Positive parenting practices are directly linked | 21 | | to adaptive behaviors in children and can buffer adverse | 22 | | outcomes, even amongst at-risk families; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, While positive parenting strategies can promote | 2 | | adjustment and achievement, child abuse and neglect can | 3 | | interrupt healthy development in children and can lead to | 4 | | maladaptive functioning; and | 5 | | WHEREAS, In the first major study of child abuse and | 6 | | neglect in 20 years, researchers with the National Academy of | 7 | | Sciences reported that the damaging consequences of abuse can | 8 | | reshape a child's brain (resulting in consequences that last | 9 | | throughout his or her life), influence the child's amygdala | 10 | | (the part of the brain that regulates emotions, particularly | 11 | | fear and anxiety), and change how the functioning prefrontal | 12 | | cortex works (the part of the brain responsible for thinking, | 13 | | planning, reasoning, and decision-making), which can lead to | 14 | | behavioral and academic problems; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, Research shows an association between child | 16 | | maltreatment and a broad range of social problems, including | 17 | | substance abuse, violence, criminal behavior, teenage | 18 | | pregnancy, anxiety, sexually transmitted diseases, smoking, | 19 | | obesity, and diabetes; and | 20 | | WHEREAS, Child abuse and neglect is a serious health | 21 | | problem that costs the United States $103 billion annually, | 22 | | which includes $33 billion in direct costs for foster care |
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| 1 | | services, hospitalization, mental health treatment, and law | 2 | | enforcement and $70 billion in indirect costs, including | 3 | | productivity, chronic health problems, and special education; | 4 | | and | 5 | | WHEREAS, Nobel prize-winning economist James J. Heckman | 6 | | and others have shown that for every dollar devoted to the | 7 | | nurturing of young children, the need for greater government | 8 | | spending on remedial education, teenage pregnancy, and prison | 9 | | incarceration may be eliminated; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, Researchers have found that, left untreated, the | 11 | | effects of child abuse and neglect can profoundly influence a | 12 | | victim's physical and mental health, emotions and impulses, | 13 | | achievements in school, and relationships formed as a child and | 14 | | as an adult; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, The American Academy of Pediatrics' Psychological | 16 | | Maltreatment Clinical Report posits that emotional abuse is | 17 | | linked with mental illness, delinquency, aggression, school | 18 | | troubles, and lifelong relationship problems in children; | 19 | | these effects of ill-treatment on a child's brain and | 20 | | behavioral development are not static and can be reversed with | 21 | | quick intervention and positive changes in a child's | 22 | | environment; the negative changes present in a child's brain | 23 | | can be countered by positive brain changes that take place when |
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| 1 | | the abuse ends and when the child is given the support he or | 2 | | she requires; parenting education is an effective way to | 3 | | prevent abuse and mental illness before it starts; therefore | 4 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 5 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 6 | | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 7 | | 27-23.1 as follows:
| 8 | | (105 ILCS 5/27-23.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-23.1)
| 9 | | Sec. 27-23.1. Parenting education. | 10 | | (a) The State Board of Education must assist each school | 11 | | district that offers an evidence-based parenting education | 12 | | model. School districts may provide
instruction in parenting | 13 | | education for grades 6 through 12 and include such
instruction | 14 | | in the courses of study regularly taught therein.
School | 15 | | districts may give regular school credit for satisfactory | 16 | | completion
by the student of such courses.
| 17 | | As used in this subsection (a) section , "parenting | 18 | | education" means and includes
instruction in the following:
| 19 | | (1) Child growth and development, including prenatal | 20 | | development.
| 21 | | (2) Childbirth and child care.
| 22 | | (3) Family structure, function and management.
| 23 | | (4) Prenatal and postnatal care for mothers and |
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| 1 | | infants.
| 2 | | (5) Prevention of child abuse.
| 3 | | (6) The physical, mental, emotional, social, economic | 4 | | and psychological
aspects of interpersonal and family | 5 | | relationships.
| 6 | | (7) Parenting skill development.
| 7 | | The State Board of Education shall assist those districts | 8 | | offering
parenting education instruction, upon request, in | 9 | | developing instructional
materials, training teachers, and | 10 | | establishing appropriate time allotments
for each of the areas | 11 | | included in such instruction.
| 12 | | School districts may offer parenting education courses | 13 | | during that period
of the day which is not part of the regular | 14 | | school day. Residents of
the school district may enroll in such | 15 | | courses. The school board may
establish fees and collect such | 16 | | charges as may be necessary for attendance
at such courses in | 17 | | an amount not to exceed the per capita cost of the
operation | 18 | | thereof, except that the board may waive all or part of such
| 19 | | charges if it determines that the individual is indigent or | 20 | | that the
educational needs of the individual requires his or | 21 | | her attendance at such courses.
| 22 | | (b) Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, from | 23 | | appropriations made for the purposes of this Section, the State | 24 | | Board of Education shall implement and administer a 3-year | 25 | | pilot program supporting the health and wellness | 26 | | student-learning requirement by utilizing a unit of |
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| 1 | | instruction on parenting education in participating school | 2 | | districts that maintain grades 9 through 12, to be determined | 3 | | by the participating school districts. The program is | 4 | | encouraged to include, but is not be limited to, instruction on | 5 | | (i) family structure, function, and management, (ii) the | 6 | | prevention of child abuse, (iii) the physical, mental, | 7 | | emotional, social, economic, and psychological aspects of | 8 | | interpersonal and family relationships, and (iv) parenting | 9 | | education competency development that is aligned to the social | 10 | | and emotional learning standards of the student's grade level. | 11 | | Instruction under this subsection (b) may be included in the | 12 | | Comprehensive Health Education Program set forth under Section | 13 | | 3 of the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health | 14 | | Education Act. The State Board of Education is authorized to | 15 | | make grants to school districts that apply to participate in | 16 | | the pilot program under this subsection (b). The State Board of | 17 | | Education shall by rule provide for the form of the application | 18 | | and criteria to be used and applied in selecting participating | 19 | | urban, suburban, and rural school districts. The provisions of | 20 | | this subsection (b), other than this sentence, are inoperative | 21 | | at the conclusion of the pilot program. | 22 | | (Source: P.A. 84-534.)
| 23 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 24 | | becoming law.
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