Bill Text: IL HB0208 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Engrossed

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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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-12 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0208 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB0208-Engrossed.html

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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; , 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, drug,

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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 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 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

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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
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

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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 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

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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. 97-1147, eff. 1-24-13; 98-190, eff. 8-6-13;
98-441, eff. 1-1-14; 98-632, eff. 7-1-14; 98-756, eff.
7-16-14.)