Bill Amendment: IL HB4442 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly
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Bill Title: SCH CD-PARENTING EDUCATION
Status: 2018-08-23 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-1043 [HB4442 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB4442-House_Amendment_001.html
Bill Title: SCH CD-PARENTING EDUCATION
Status: 2018-08-23 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-1043 [HB4442 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB4442-House_Amendment_001.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4442
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4442 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the title and before the enacting clause with | ||||||
4 | the following:
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5 | "WHEREAS, Research-based prevention and wellness promotion | ||||||
6 | efforts that strengthen positive parenting practices and | ||||||
7 | enhance a child's resilience in the face of adversity have been | ||||||
8 | shown to have a significant impact on a child's mental health, | ||||||
9 | physical health, and educational outcomes; and
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10 | WHEREAS, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | ||||||
11 | define positive parenting skills as good communication, | ||||||
12 | appropriate discipline, and responding to a child's physical | ||||||
13 | and emotional needs; and
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14 | WHEREAS, Studies in the last decade have shown that | ||||||
15 | well-designed programs created to promote healthy cognitive, |
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1 | emotional, and social development can improve the prospects and | ||||||
2 | quality of life of many children; and
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3 | WHEREAS, Parenting programs have been shown to provide | ||||||
4 | critical information on child development and safety, promote | ||||||
5 | positive parenting behaviors, teach effective discipline | ||||||
6 | strategies, alter adverse family patterns, and reduce levels of | ||||||
7 | child abuse and neglect; and
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8 | WHEREAS, Positive parenting practices are directly linked | ||||||
9 | to adaptive behaviors in children and can buffer adverse | ||||||
10 | outcomes, even amongst at-risk families; and
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11 | WHEREAS, While positive parenting strategies can promote | ||||||
12 | adjustment and achievement, child abuse and neglect can | ||||||
13 | interrupt healthy development in children and can lead to | ||||||
14 | maladaptive functioning; and
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15 | WHEREAS, In the first major study of child abuse and | ||||||
16 | neglect in 20 years, researchers with the National Academy of | ||||||
17 | Sciences reported that the damaging consequences of abuse can | ||||||
18 | reshape a child's brain (resulting in consequences that last | ||||||
19 | throughout his or her life), influence the child's amygdala | ||||||
20 | (the part of the brain that regulates emotions, particularly | ||||||
21 | fear and anxiety), and change how the functioning prefrontal | ||||||
22 | cortex works (the part of the brain responsible for thinking, |
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1 | planning, reasoning, and decision-making), which can lead to | ||||||
2 | behavioral and academic problems; and
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3 | WHEREAS, Research shows an association between child | ||||||
4 | maltreatment and a broad range of social problems, including | ||||||
5 | substance abuse, violence, criminal behavior, teenage | ||||||
6 | pregnancy, anxiety, sexually transmitted diseases, smoking, | ||||||
7 | obesity, and diabetes; and
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8 | WHEREAS, Child abuse and neglect is a serious health | ||||||
9 | problem that costs the United States $103 billion annually, | ||||||
10 | which includes $33 billion in direct costs for foster care | ||||||
11 | services, hospitalization, mental health treatment, and law | ||||||
12 | enforcement and $70 billion in indirect costs, including | ||||||
13 | productivity, chronic health problems, and special education; | ||||||
14 | and
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15 | WHEREAS, Nobel prize-winning economist James J. Heckman | ||||||
16 | and others have shown that for every dollar devoted to the | ||||||
17 | nurturing of young children, the need for greater government | ||||||
18 | spending on remedial education, teenage pregnancy, and prison | ||||||
19 | incarceration may be eliminated; and
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20 | WHEREAS, Researchers have found that, left untreated, the | ||||||
21 | effects of child abuse and neglect can profoundly influence a | ||||||
22 | victim's physical and mental health, emotions and impulses, |
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1 | achievements in school, and relationships formed as a child and | ||||||
2 | as an adult; and
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3 | WHEREAS, The American Academy of Pediatrics' Psychological | ||||||
4 | Maltreatment Clinical Report posits that emotional abuse is | ||||||
5 | linked with mental illness, delinquency, aggression, school | ||||||
6 | troubles, and lifelong relationship problems in children; | ||||||
7 | these effects of ill-treatment on a child's brain and | ||||||
8 | behavioral development are not static and can be reversed with | ||||||
9 | quick intervention and positive changes in a child's | ||||||
10 | environment; the negative changes present in a child's brain | ||||||
11 | can be countered by positive brain changes that take place when | ||||||
12 | the abuse ends and when the child is given the support he or | ||||||
13 | she requires; parenting education is an effective way to | ||||||
14 | prevent abuse and mental illness before it starts; therefore"; | ||||||
15 | and
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16 | by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the | ||||||
17 | following:
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18 | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||
19 | 27-23.1 as follows:
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20 | (105 ILCS 5/27-23.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-23.1)
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21 | Sec. 27-23.1. Parenting education. | ||||||
22 | (a) The State Board of Education must assist each school |
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1 | district that offers an evidence-based parenting education | ||||||
2 | model. School districts may provide
instruction in parenting | ||||||
3 | education for grades 6 through 12 and include such
instruction | ||||||
4 | in the courses of study regularly taught therein.
School | ||||||
5 | districts may give regular school credit for satisfactory | ||||||
6 | completion
by the student of such courses.
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7 | As used in this subsection (a) section , "parenting | ||||||
8 | education" means and includes
instruction in the following:
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9 | (1) Child growth and development, including prenatal | ||||||
10 | development.
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11 | (2) Childbirth and child care.
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12 | (3) Family structure, function and management.
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13 | (4) Prenatal and postnatal care for mothers and | ||||||
14 | infants.
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15 | (5) Prevention of child abuse.
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16 | (6) The physical, mental, emotional, social, economic | ||||||
17 | and psychological
aspects of interpersonal and family | ||||||
18 | relationships.
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19 | (7) Parenting skill development.
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20 | The State Board of Education shall assist those districts | ||||||
21 | offering
parenting education instruction, upon request, in | ||||||
22 | developing instructional
materials, training teachers, and | ||||||
23 | establishing appropriate time allotments
for each of the areas | ||||||
24 | included in such instruction.
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25 | School districts may offer parenting education courses | ||||||
26 | during that period
of the day which is not part of the regular |
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1 | school day. Residents of
the school district may enroll in such | ||||||
2 | courses. The school board may
establish fees and collect such | ||||||
3 | charges as may be necessary for attendance
at such courses in | ||||||
4 | an amount not to exceed the per capita cost of the
operation | ||||||
5 | thereof, except that the board may waive all or part of such
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6 | charges if it determines that the individual is indigent or | ||||||
7 | that the
educational needs of the individual requires his or | ||||||
8 | her attendance at such courses.
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9 | (b) Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, from | ||||||
10 | appropriations made for the purposes of this Section, the State | ||||||
11 | Board of Education shall implement and administer a 3-year | ||||||
12 | pilot program supporting the health and wellness | ||||||
13 | student-learning requirement by utilizing a unit of | ||||||
14 | instruction on parenting education in participating school | ||||||
15 | districts that maintain grades 9 through 12, to be determined | ||||||
16 | by the participating school districts. The program is | ||||||
17 | encouraged to include, but is not be limited to, instruction on | ||||||
18 | (i) family structure, function, and management, (ii) the | ||||||
19 | prevention of child abuse, (iii) the physical, mental, | ||||||
20 | emotional, social, economic, and psychological aspects of | ||||||
21 | interpersonal and family relationships, and (iv) parenting | ||||||
22 | education competency development that is aligned to the social | ||||||
23 | and emotional learning standards of the student's grade level. | ||||||
24 | Instruction under this subsection (b) may be included in the | ||||||
25 | Comprehensive Health Education Program set forth under Section | ||||||
26 | 3 of the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health |
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1 | Education Act. The State Board of Education is authorized to | ||||||
2 | make grants to school districts that apply to participate in | ||||||
3 | the pilot program under this subsection (b). The State Board of | ||||||
4 | Education shall by rule provide for the form of the application | ||||||
5 | and criteria to be used and applied in selecting participating | ||||||
6 | urban, suburban, and rural school districts. The provisions of | ||||||
7 | this subsection (b), other than this sentence, are inoperative | ||||||
8 | at the conclusion of the pilot program. | ||||||
9 | (Source: P.A. 84-534.)
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10 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
11 | becoming law.".
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