Bill Text: IL HB0079 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Provides that a school's comprehensive health education program must include instruction on the medical and legal ramifications of cannabis use. Makes technical corrections. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-23 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0079 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB0079-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB0079 Introduced , by Rep. Mary E. Flowers SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 110/3
Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Provides that a school's comprehensive health education program must include instruction on the medical and legal ramifications of cannabis use. Makes technical corrections. Effective immediately.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT
A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive
Health Education Act is amended by changing Section 3 as
follows:
(105 ILCS 110/3)
Sec. 3. Comprehensive Health Education Program. The
program established under this Act shall include, but not be
limited to, the following major educational areas as a basis
for curricula in all elementary and secondary schools in this
State: human ecology and health; , human growth and
development; , the emotional, psychological, physiological,
hygienic, and social responsibilities of family life,
including sexual abstinence until marriage; , the prevention
and control of disease, including instruction in grades 6
through 12 on the prevention, transmission, and spread of
AIDS; , age-appropriate sexual abuse and assault awareness and
prevention education in grades pre-kindergarten through 12; ,
public and environmental health; , consumer health; , safety
education and disaster survival; , mental health and illness; ,
personal health habits; , alcohol and , drug use, and abuse,
including the medical and legal ramifications of alcohol,

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drug, and cannabis tobacco use; , abuse during pregnancy; ,
evidence-based and medically accurate information regarding
sexual abstinence; , tobacco, including the medical and legal
ramifications of tobacco use; nutrition; , and dental health.
The instruction on mental health and illness must evaluate the
multiple dimensions of health by reviewing the relationship
between physical and mental health so as to enhance student
understanding, attitudes, and behaviors that promote health,
well-being, and human dignity. The program shall also provide
course material and instruction to advise pupils of the
Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act. The program shall
include information about cancer, including, without
limitation, types of cancer, signs and symptoms, risk factors,
the importance of early prevention and detection, and
information on where to go for help. Notwithstanding the above
educational areas, the following areas may also be included as
a basis for curricula in all elementary and secondary schools
in this State: basic first aid (including, but not limited to,
cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the Heimlich maneuver),
heart disease, diabetes, stroke, the prevention of child
abuse, neglect, and suicide, and teen dating violence in
grades 7 through 12. Beginning with the 2014-2015 school year,
training on how to properly administer cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (which training must be in accordance with
standards of the American Red Cross, the American Heart
Association, or another nationally recognized certifying

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organization) and how to use an automated external
defibrillator shall be included as a basis for curricula in
all secondary schools in this State.
The school board of each public elementary and secondary
school in the State shall encourage all teachers and other
school personnel to acquire, develop, and maintain the
knowledge and skills necessary to properly administer
life-saving techniques, including, without limitation, the
Heimlich maneuver and rescue breathing. The training shall be
in accordance with standards of the American Red Cross, the
American Heart Association, or another nationally recognized
certifying organization. A school board may use the services
of non-governmental entities whose personnel have expertise in
life-saving techniques to instruct teachers and other school
personnel in these techniques. Each school board is encouraged
to have in its employ, or on its volunteer staff, at least one
person who is certified, by the American Red Cross or by
another qualified certifying agency, as qualified to
administer first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In
addition, each school board is authorized to allocate
appropriate portions of its institute or inservice days to
conduct training programs for teachers and other school
personnel who have expressed an interest in becoming qualified
to administer emergency first aid or cardiopulmonary
resuscitation. School boards are urged to encourage their
teachers and other school personnel who coach school athletic

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programs and other extracurricular school activities to
acquire, develop, and maintain the knowledge and skills
necessary to properly administer first aid and cardiopulmonary
resuscitation in accordance with standards and requirements
established by the American Red Cross or another qualified
certifying agency. Subject to appropriation, the State Board
of Education shall establish and administer a matching grant
program to pay for half of the cost that a school district
incurs in training those teachers and other school personnel
who express an interest in becoming qualified to administer
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (which training must be in
accordance with standards of the American Red Cross, the
American Heart Association, or another nationally recognized
certifying organization) or in learning how to use an
automated external defibrillator. A school district that
applies for a grant must demonstrate that it has funds to pay
half of the cost of the training for which matching grant money
is sought. The State Board of Education shall award the grants
on a first-come, first-serve basis.
No pupil shall be required to take or participate in any
class or course on AIDS or family life instruction or to
receive training on how to properly administer cardiopulmonary
resuscitation or how to use an automated external
defibrillator if his or her parent or guardian submits written
objection thereto, and refusal to take or participate in the
course or program or the training shall not be reason for

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suspension or expulsion of the pupil.
Curricula developed under programs established in
accordance with this Act in the major educational area of
alcohol and drug use and abuse, including cannabis, shall
include classroom instruction in grades 5 through 12. The
instruction, which shall include matters relating to both the
physical and legal effects and ramifications of drug and
substance abuse, including cannabis, shall be integrated into
existing curricula; and the State Board of Education shall
develop and make available to all elementary and secondary
schools in this State instructional materials and guidelines
which will assist the schools in incorporating the instruction
into their existing curricula. In addition, school districts
may offer, as part of existing curricula during the school day
or as part of an after school program, support services and
instruction for pupils or pupils whose parent, parents, or
guardians are chemically dependent.
(Source: P.A. 101-305, eff. 1-1-20; revised 8-21-20.)