Bill Text: IL HB3449 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Children's Mental Health Act of 2003. In a provision requiring the Illinois State Board of Education to develop and implement a plan to incorporate social and emotional development standards for the purpose of enhancing and measuring children's school readiness and ability to achieve academic success, provides that the plan shall be reviewed and revised periodically by the Board of Education at least once every 3 years. Requires the plan to include the teaching of grade-appropriate mental health topics, including, but not limited to, types of mental illness, how to find help for mental illness for peers and yourself, suicide prevention, substance abuse prevention, coping strategies, appropriate language to use surrounding mental health, and how to incorporate technology in a mental health crisis. In a provision requiring every Illinois school district to develop a policy for incorporating social and emotional development into the district's educational program, provides that the policy shall be reviewed and revised periodically by the school district to incorporate revised provisions of the Board of Education's social and emotional development standards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-10 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3449 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3449-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3449 Introduced , by Rep. Matt Hanson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
405 ILCS 49/15
Amends the Children's Mental Health Act of 2003. In a provision requiring the Illinois State Board of Education to develop and implement a plan to incorporate social and emotional development standards for the purpose of enhancing and measuring children's school readiness and ability to achieve academic success, provides that the plan shall be reviewed and revised periodically by the Board of Education at least once every 3 years. Requires the plan to include the teaching of grade-appropriate mental health topics, including, but not limited to, types of mental illness, how to find help for mental illness for peers and yourself, suicide prevention, substance abuse prevention, coping strategies, appropriate language to use surrounding mental health, and how to incorporate technology in a mental health crisis. In a provision requiring every Illinois school district to develop a policy for incorporating social and emotional development into the district's educational program, provides that the policy shall be reviewed and revised periodically by the school district to incorporate revised provisions of the Board of Education's social and emotional development standards.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning mental health.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Children's Mental Health Act of 2003 is
amended by changing Section 15 as follows:
(405 ILCS 49/15)
Sec. 15. Mental health and schools.
(a) The Illinois State Board of Education shall develop
and implement a plan to incorporate social and emotional
development standards as part of the Illinois Learning
Standards for the purpose of enhancing and measuring
children's school readiness and ability to achieve academic
success. The plan shall be submitted to the Governor, the
General Assembly, and the Partnership by December 31, 2004.
(a-5) The plan provided for in subsection (a) shall be
reviewed and revised periodically by the Illinois State Board
of Education at least once every 3 years. Revisions to the plan
shall include the teaching of grade-appropriate mental health
topics, including, but not limited to, types of mental
illness, how to find help for mental illness for peers and
yourself, suicide prevention, substance abuse prevention,
coping strategies, appropriate language to use surrounding
mental health, and how to incorporate technology in a mental

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health crisis.
(b) Every Illinois school district shall develop a policy
for incorporating social and emotional development into the
district's educational program. The policy shall address
teaching and assessing social and emotional skills and
protocols for responding to children with social, emotional,
or mental health problems, or a combination of such problems,
that impact learning ability. School social workers may
implement a continuum of social and emotional education
programs and services in accordance with students' needs. Each
district must submit this policy to the Illinois State Board
of Education by August 31, 2004. The policy shall be reviewed
and revised periodically by the school district to incorporate
revised provisions of the Illinois State Board of Education's
social and emotional development standards.
(Source: P.A. 98-338, eff. 8-13-13.)