Bill Text: IL HB3247 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Provides that safety around icy bodies of water shall be included in the Comprehensive Health Education Program in grades pre-kindergarten through 8.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [HB3247 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3247-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3247 Introduced , by Rep. Nabeela Syed SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 110/3
Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Provides that safety around icy bodies of water shall be included in the Comprehensive Health Education Program in grades pre-kindergarten through 8.
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STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT MAY APPLY
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, drug, and tobacco use; abuse

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during pregnancy; evidence-based and medically accurate
information regarding sexual abstinence; tobacco and
e-cigarettes and other vapor devices; nutrition; safety around
icy bodies of water in grades pre-kindergarten through 8; 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 and must include
how and where to find mental health resources and specialized
treatment in the State. 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

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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
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

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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
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

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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 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, 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; 102-464, eff. 8-20-21;
102-558, eff. 8-20-21; 102-1034, eff. 1-1-23.)