Bill Text: IL HB3924 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code and the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, provides that in every State-required health course for grades 9 through 12, a school district shall provide instruction, study, and discussion on the dangers of fentanyl. Sets forth requirements for the instruction, study, and discussion, and requires students to be assessed on the instruction.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-5)

Status: (Passed) 2023-07-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0365 [HB3924 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3924-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3924 Introduced , by Rep. Janet Yang Rohr SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/27-23.17 new
Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that school districts shall provide instruction on the dangers of fentanyl Sets forth what the instruction of fentanyl shall contain. Provides that students shall be assessed on the fentanyl instruction.
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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 School Code is amended by adding Section
27-23.17 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/27-23.17 new)
Sec. 27-23.17. Fentanyl education.
(a) School districts shall provide instruction on the
dangers of fentanyl. This instruction shall include, but is
not limited to:
(1) information on fentanyl itself, including, an
explanation of the differences between synthetic and
non-synthetic opioids and illicit drugs, the variations of
fentanyl itself, and the differences between the legal and
illegal uses of fentanyl;
(2) the side effects and the risk factors of using
fentanyl, along with information comparing the lethal
amounts of fentanyl in comparison to other drugs.
Information of the risk factors may include, but are not
limited to:
(A) the lethal dose of fentanyl;
(B) how often fentanyl is placed in drugs without
a person's knowledge;

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(C) an explanation of what fentanyl does to a
person's body and the severity of fentanyl's addictive
properties; and
(D) how the consumption of fentanyl can lead to
hypoxia as well as an explanation of what hypoxia
precisely does to a person's body;
(3) providing details about the process of lacing
fentanyl in other drugs and why drugs get laced with
fentanyl; and
(4) providing details about how to detect fentanyl in
drugs and how to save someone from an overdose of
fentanyl, which shall include:
(A) how to buy and use fentanyl test strips;
(B) how to buy and use Narcan, either through
nasal spray or injections; and
(C) how to detect if someone is overdosing on
fentanyl;
(b) Students shall be assessed on the instruction provided
in this Section. The assessment may include, but is not
limited to:
(1) the differences between synthetic and
non-synthetic drugs;
(2) Hypoxia;
(3) the effects of fentanyl on a person's body;
(4) the lethal dose of fentanyl; and
(5) how to detect and prevent overdoses.