Bill Amendment: IL HB1446 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly
NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: HEALTH-TECH
Status: 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB1446 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB1446-House_Amendment_001.html
Bill Title: HEALTH-TECH
Status: 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB1446 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB1446-House_Amendment_001.html
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1446
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1446 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental | ||||||
| 5 | Disabilities Code is amended by adding Section 4-211 as | ||||||
| 6 | follows:
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| 7 | (405 ILCS 5/4-211 new) | ||||||
| 8 | Sec. 4-211. Sex education for persons admitted to a | ||||||
| 9 | developmental disability facility. A person
admitted to a | ||||||
| 10 | developmental disability facility shall have access to sex | ||||||
| 11 | education, related
resources and treatment planning that | ||||||
| 12 | supports his or her right to sexual expression, including
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| 13 | access reviews of whether the admitted person is capable of | ||||||
| 14 | giving consent to sexual activity.
The Department shall approve | ||||||
| 15 | course material in sex education. Course material and
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| 16 | instruction in sex education shall: (1) be appropriate to the | ||||||
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| 1 | developmental disability level of
the recipient, medically | ||||||
| 2 | accurate, and complete; (2) present identity as a part of | ||||||
| 3 | mature
adulthood; (3) replicate evidence-based programs or | ||||||
| 4 | substantially incorporate elements of
evidence-based programs; | ||||||
| 5 | (4) place substantial emphasis on the prevention of pregnancy | ||||||
| 6 | and
sexually transmitted diseases and shall stress that | ||||||
| 7 | abstinence is the ensured method of
avoiding unintended | ||||||
| 8 | pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and HIV/AIDS; (S) | ||||||
| 9 | include a
discussion of the possible emotional and | ||||||
| 10 | psychological consequences of sexual intercourse
and the | ||||||
| 11 | consequences of unwanted pregnancy; (6) stress that sexually | ||||||
| 12 | transmitted diseases
are serious possible health hazards of | ||||||
| 13 | sexual intercourse; (7) provide statistics based on the
latest | ||||||
| 14 | medical information citing the failure and success rates of | ||||||
| 15 | condoms in preventing
HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted | ||||||
| 16 | diseases; (8) teach recipients to avoid behavior that
could be | ||||||
| 17 | interpreted as unwanted sexual advances, and how to reject | ||||||
| 18 | unwanted sexual
advances; and (9) signs of possible dangers | ||||||
| 19 | from potential predators. The Department shall
not withhold | ||||||
| 20 | approval of materials that otherwise meet the criteria | ||||||
| 21 | specified in this Section on the basis that
they include or | ||||||
| 22 | refer to a religious or faith based perspective.".
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