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90_HB2493eng
105 ILCS 5/27-23.5 new
Amends the School Code. Requires each school district
maintaining grades 9 and 10 to include in its curriculum and
teach to the students of either such grade one unit of
instruction on organ/tissue donor and transplantation
programs. Requires the regional superintendent of schools to
make available to those districts information and data that
the districts may use in developing the required unit of
instruction. Provides that each school board determines the
minimum amount of instructional time that qualifies as the
required unit of instruction. Effective July 1, 1998.
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HB2493 Engrossed LRB9008896THpk
1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by adding Section
2 27-23.5.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section
6 27-23.5 as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/27-23.5 new)
8 Sec. 27-23.5. Organ/tissue donor and transplantation
9 programs. Each school district that maintains grades 9 and
10 10 may include in its curriculum and teach to the students of
11 either such grade one unit of instruction on organ/tissue
12 donor and transplantation programs. No student shall be
13 required to take or participate in instruction on
14 organ/tissue donor and transplantation programs if a parent
15 or guardian files written objection thereto on constitutional
16 grounds, and refusal to take or participate in such
17 instruction on those grounds shall not be reason for
18 suspension or expulsion of a student or result in any
19 academic penalty.
20 The regional superintendent of schools in which a school
21 district that maintains grades 9 and 10 is located shall
22 obtain and make available to the school board of the district
23 information and data that may be used by the district in
24 developing a unit of instruction under this Section.
25 However, each school board shall determine the minimum amount
26 of instructional time that shall qualify as a unit of
27 instruction satisfying the requirements of this Section.
28 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July
29 1, 1998.