Bill Text: IL HB0089 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Requires school boards, prior to the 2010-2011 school year, to develop policies and adopt rules relating to the prevention of infections transmitted by contact with blood or bodily fluids. Sets forth what the policies and rules must include. Provides that no school shall be required to pay the cost of any testing recommended under these policies and rules. Requires the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Department of Public Health, to develop and disseminate to school boards a model exposure policy and training program, which shall be made available at no cost to schools by video, electronic, or other means. Effective July 1, 2009.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-13 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0089 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB0089-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB0089 Introduced 1/14/2009, by Rep. Lou Lang SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/10-21.11 from Ch. 122, par. 10-21.11
Amends the School Code. Requires school boards, prior to the 2010-2011 school year, to develop policies and adopt rules relating to the prevention of infections transmitted by contact with blood or bodily fluids. Sets forth what the policies and rules must include. Provides that no school shall be required to pay the cost of any testing recommended under these policies and rules. Requires the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Department of Public Health, to develop and disseminate to school boards a model exposure policy and training program, which shall be made available at no cost to schools by video, electronic, or other means. Effective July 1, 2009.
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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 changing Section
10-21.11 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/10-21.11) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-21.11)
Sec. 10-21.11. Infectious disease policies and rules.
(a) To develop policies and adopt rules relating to the
appropriate manner of managing children with chronic
infectious diseases, not inconsistent with guidelines
published by the State Board of Education and the Illinois
Department of Public Health. Such policies and rules must
include evaluation of students with a chronic infectious
disease on an individual case-by-case basis, and may include
different provisions for different age groups, classes of
instruction, types of educational institution, and other
reasonable classifications, as the school board may find
appropriate.
(b) Prior to the 2010-2011 school year, to develop policies
and adopt rules relating to the prevention of infections
transmitted by contact with blood or bodily fluids. Such
policies and rules must include U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention universal precautions when exposure to

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blood or bodily fluids occurs; a recommendation for testing by
a health care professional; and a summary of applicable State
and federal laws applying to confidentiality of medical
information. No school shall be required to pay the cost of any
testing recommended under these policies and rules. The State
Board of Education, in consultation with the Department of
Public Health, shall develop and disseminate to school boards a
model exposure policy and training program, which shall be made
available at no cost to schools by video, electronic, or other
means.
(c) The requirements of this Section apply This requirement
applies to all school districts and public schools of this
State, including special charter districts, Department of
Corrections school districts, laboratory schools operated by
the governing board of a public university, and alternative
schools operated by a regional superintendent of schools.
(Source: P.A. 86-890; 86-1028.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
2009.