Bill Text: IL HB3636 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Provides that a person admitted to a developmental disability facility shall have access to sex education, related sources, and treatment planning that supports his or her right to sexual expression, including access reviews of whether the admitted person is capable of giving consent to sexual activity. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall approve course material in sex education which must meet certain statutory guidelines.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB3636 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB3636-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB3636 Introduced , by Rep. William Davis SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
405 ILCS 5/4-211 new
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Provides that a person admitted to a developmental disability facility shall have access to sex education, related sources, and treatment planning that supports his or her right to sexual expression, including access reviews of whether the admitted person is capable of giving consent to sexual activity. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall approve course material in sex education which must meet certain statutory guidelines.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning health.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities Code is amended by adding Section 4-211 as
follows:
(405 ILCS 5/4-211 new)
Sec. 4-211. Sex education for persons admitted to a
developmental disability facility. A person admitted to a
developmental disability facility shall have access to sex
education, related sources, and treatment planning that
supports his or her right to sexual expression, including
access reviews of whether the admitted person is capable of
giving consent to sexual activity. The Department shall approve
course material in sex education. Course material and
instruction in sex education shall: (1) be appropriate to the
developmental disability level of the recipient, medically
accurate, and complete; (2) replicate evidence-based programs
or substantially incorporate elements of evidence-based
programs; (3) place substantial emphasis on contraception for
the prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases
and shall stress that abstinence is the ensured method of
avoiding unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases,

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and HIV/AIDS; (4) include a discussion of the possible
emotional and psychological consequences of sexual intercourse
and the consequences of unwanted pregnancy; (5) stress that
sexually transmitted diseases are serious possible health
hazards of sexual intercourse; (6) provide statistics based on
the latest medical information citing the failure and success
rates of condoms in preventing HIV/AIDS and other sexually
transmitted diseases; and (7) teach recipients to not make
unwanted physical and verbal sexual advances and how to say no
to unwanted sexual advances.