Bill Text: IL HB5012 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Makes changes concerning sex education, including changing the name to sexual health and changing course requirements. Makes changes concerning family life course requirements. Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act to make changes concerning the educational areas a comprehensive health education program must include. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5012 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB5012-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB5012 Introduced , by Rep. Camille Y. Lilly SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/2-3.62 from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.62
105 ILCS 5/27-9.1 from Ch. 122, par. 27-9.1
105 ILCS 5/27-9.2 from Ch. 122, par. 27-9.2
105 ILCS 110/3
Amends the School Code. Makes changes concerning sex education, including changing the name to sexual health and changing course requirements. Makes changes concerning family life course requirements. Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act to make changes concerning the educational areas a comprehensive health education program must include. Effective immediately.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT
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 changing Sections
2-3.62, 27-9.1, and 27-9.2 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/2-3.62) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.62)
Sec. 2-3.62. Educational service centers.
(a) A regional network of educational service centers shall
be established by the State Board of Education to coordinate
and combine existing services in a manner which is practical
and efficient and to provide new services to schools as
provided in this Section. Services to be made available by such
centers shall include the planning, implementation and
evaluation of:
(1) (blank);
(2) computer technology education;
(3) mathematics, science and reading resources for
teachers including continuing education, inservice
training and staff development.
The centers may provide training, technical assistance,
coordination and planning in other program areas such as school
improvement, school accountability, financial planning,
consultation, and services, career guidance, early childhood

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education, alcohol/drug education and prevention, family life -
sexual health sex education, electronic transmission of data
from school districts to the State, alternative education and
regional special education, and telecommunications systems
that provide distance learning. Such telecommunications
systems may be obtained through the Department of Central
Management Services pursuant to Section 405-270 of the
Department of Central Management Services Law (20 ILCS
405/405-270). The programs and services of educational service
centers may be offered to private school teachers and private
school students within each service center area provided public
schools have already been afforded adequate access to such
programs and services.
Upon the abolition of the office, removal from office,
disqualification for office, resignation from office, or
expiration of the current term of office of the regional
superintendent of schools, whichever is earlier, the chief
administrative officer of the centers serving that portion of a
Class II county school unit outside of a city of 500,000 or
more inhabitants shall have and exercise, in and with respect
to each educational service region having a population of
2,000,000 or more inhabitants and in and with respect to each
school district located in any such educational service region,
all of the rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities
theretofore vested by law in and exercised and performed by the
regional superintendent of schools for that area under the

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provisions of this Code or any other laws of this State.
The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules and
regulations necessary to implement this Section. The rules
shall include detailed standards which delineate the scope and
specific content of programs to be provided by each Educational
Service Center, as well as the specific planning,
implementation and evaluation services to be provided by each
Center relative to its programs. The Board shall also provide
the standards by which it will evaluate the programs provided
by each Center.
(b) Centers serving Class 1 county school units shall be
governed by an 11-member board, 3 members of which shall be
public school teachers nominated by the local bargaining
representatives to the appropriate regional superintendent for
appointment and no more than 3 members of which shall be from
each of the following categories, including but not limited to
superintendents, regional superintendents, school board
members and a representative of an institution of higher
education. The members of the board shall be appointed by the
regional superintendents whose school districts are served by
the educational service center. The composition of the board
will reflect the revisions of this amendatory Act of 1989 as
the terms of office of current members expire.
(c) The centers shall be of sufficient size and number to
assure delivery of services to all local school districts in
the State.

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(d) From monies appropriated for this program the State
Board of Education shall provide grants paid from the Personal
Property Tax Replacement Fund to qualifying Educational
Service Centers applying for such grants in accordance with
rules and regulations promulgated by the State Board of
Education to implement this Section.
(e) The governing authority of each of the 18 regional
educational service centers shall appoint a family life -
sexual health sex education advisory board consisting of 2
parents, 2 teachers, 2 school administrators, 2 school board
members, 2 health care professionals, one library system
representative, and the director of the regional educational
service center who shall serve as chairperson of the advisory
board so appointed. Members of the family life - sexual health
sex education advisory boards shall serve without
compensation. Each of the advisory boards appointed pursuant to
this subsection shall develop a plan for regional
teacher-parent family life - sexual health sex education
training sessions and shall file a written report of such plan
with the governing board of their regional educational service
center. The directors of each of the regional educational
service centers shall thereupon meet, review each of the
reports submitted by the advisory boards and combine those
reports into a single written report which they shall file with
the Citizens Council on School Problems prior to the end of the
regular school term of the 1987-1988 school year.

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(f) The 14 educational service centers serving Class I
county school units shall be disbanded on the first Monday of
August, 1995, and their statutory responsibilities and
programs shall be assumed by the regional offices of education,
subject to rules and regulations developed by the State Board
of Education. The regional superintendents of schools elected
by the voters residing in all Class I counties shall serve as
the chief administrators for these programs and services.
(Source: P.A. 98-24, eff. 6-19-13; 98-647, eff. 6-13-14; 99-30,
eff. 7-10-15.)
(105 ILCS 5/27-9.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-9.1)
Sec. 27-9.1. Sexual Health Sex education.
(a) In this Section:
"Abstinence" means not engaging in oral, vaginal, or anal
intercourse or genital skin-to-skin contact.
"Adapt" means to modify an evidence-based or
evidence-informed program model for use with a particular
demographic, ethnic, linguistic, or cultural group.
"Age appropriate" means suitable to particular ages or age
groups of children and adolescents, based on the developing
cognitive, emotional, and behavioral capacity typical for the
age or age group.
"Anatomy and physiology" means that information that
provides a foundation for understanding basic human
functioning.

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"Characteristics of effective programs" means the aspects
of evidence-based programs, including the development,
content, and implementation of such programs, that (i) have
been shown to be effective in terms of increasing knowledge,
clarifying values and attitudes, increasing skills, and
impacting behavior and (ii) are widely recognized by leading
medical and public health agencies to be effective in changing
sexual behaviors that lead to sexually transmitted infections,
including HIV, unintended pregnancy, and dating violence and
sexual assault among young people.
"Comprehensive" means essential information that includes,
but is not limited to, content related to anatomy and
physiology; healthy relationships; identity; personal safety;
pregnancy and reproduction; puberty, growth, and adolescent
development; and sexually transmitted infections, including
HIV.
"Consent" means an affirmative, knowing, conscious,
ongoing, and voluntary agreement to engage in interpersonal,
physical, or sexual activity, which can be revoked at any
point, including during the course of interpersonal, physical,
or sexual activity.
"Culturally appropriate" means affirming culturally
diverse individuals, families, and communities in an
inclusive, respectful, and effective manner, including
materials and instruction that are inclusive of race,
ethnicity, language, cultural background, religion, gender,

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gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, sexual
behavior, and different abilities.
"Evidence-based program" means a program for which
systematic, empirical research or evaluation has provided
evidence of effectiveness.
"Evidence-informed program" means a program that uses the
best available research and practice knowledge to guide program
design and implementation.
"Healthy relationships" means that information that helps
pupils learn how to identify healthy and unhealthy relationship
behaviors and helps pupils develop the skills to navigate
changing relationships among family, peers, and partners.
"Identity" means that information that addresses several
fundamental aspects of people's understanding of how they
identify their sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or
gender expression.
"Personal safety" means that information that helps pupils
develop an awareness about and the skills and confidence to
respond to bullying, harassment, including sexual harassment,
sexual abuse, sexual assault, intimate partner violence,
incest, rape, and sex trafficking and the role that schools
play in creating learning environments that promote personal
safety.
"Pregnancy and reproduction" means that information that
addresses how pregnancy happens, decision-making to avoid
unintended pregnancy through abstinence and contraception,

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prenatal practices and resources that support a healthy
pregnancy; and information that helps pupils understand
resources and laws related to pregnancy, adoption, abortion,
and parenting.
Puberty, growth, and adolescent development" means that
information that addresses a pivotal milestone for every person
that has an impact on cognitive, emotional, physical, sexual
and social development.
"Sexually transmitted infections, including HIV" means
that information that provides both content and skills for
understanding scientifically accepted methods of how to
prevent and avoid exposure to sexually transmitted infections
(STIs), including HIV, through abstinence, condoms,
vaccination, Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), and
Post-exposure Prophylaxis (PEP), including how they are
transmitted, their signs, symptoms, and options for screening,
testing, and treatment, and other medical care.
"Medically accurate" means verified or supported by the
weight of research conducted in compliance with accepted
scientific methods and published in peer-reviewed journals, if
applicable, or comprising information recognized as accurate,
objective, and complete.
"Unintended pregnancy" means a pregnancy that is
unplanned, unwanted (that is, the pregnancy occurred when no
children or no more children were desired) or mistimed (that
is, the pregnancy occurred earlier than desired).

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(a-5) No pupil shall be required to take or participate in
any class or course in comprehensive sexual health sex
education if that pupil's his parent or guardian submits
written objection thereto, and refusal to take or participate
in such course or program shall not be reason for suspension or
expulsion of such pupil. Each class or course in comprehensive
sex education offered in any of grades 6 through 12 shall
include instruction on both abstinence and contraception for
the prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases,
including HIV/AIDS. Nothing in this Section prohibits
instruction in sanitation, hygiene or traditional courses in
biology.
(b) (Blank). All public school classes that teach sex
education and discuss sexual intercourse in grades 6 through 12
shall emphasize that abstinence from sexual intercourse is a
responsible and positive decision and is the only protection
that is 100% effective against unwanted teenage pregnancy,
sexually transmitted diseases, and acquired immune deficiency
syndrome (AIDS) when transmitted sexually.
(c) All classes that teach sexual health sex education and
discuss sexual intercourse in grades 6 through 12 shall satisfy
the following criteria:
(1) Course material and instruction shall be
culturally, developmentally, linguistically, and age
appropriate, medically accurate, and comprehensive
complete.

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(1.5) Course material and instruction shall replicate
evidence-based or evidence-informed programs or
substantially incorporate elements of evidence-based
programs or evidence-informed programs or characteristics
of effective programs.
(2) Course material and instruction shall include
information on the value of healthy, consenting, committed
relationships, including marriage and civil unions and how
to form and maintain healthy romantic, sexual, and intimate
partnerships that are based on mutual consent and are free
from violence, coercion, and intimidation. teach honor and
respect for monogamous heterosexual marriage.
(3) Course material and instruction shall include
information stating that continuous, consistent,
abstinence from sexual activity is the only protection that
is 100% effective against unintended pregnancy and STIs,
including HIV. Course material and instruction shall also
include information about scientifically accepted methods
that can be used to greatly reduce unintended pregnancy and
STIs, including HIV. These methods include, but are not
limited to, contraception, vaccination, PrEP and PEP,
regular testing and screening, and other medical care.
place substantial emphasis on both abstinence, including
abstinence until marriage, and contraception for the
prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases
among youth and shall stress that abstinence is the ensured

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method of avoiding unintended pregnancy, sexually
transmitted diseases, and HIV/AIDS.
(4) Course material and instruction related to
pregnancy shall include an objective discussion of
parenting, adoption, and abortion. shall include a
discussion of the possible emotional and psychological
consequences of preadolescent and adolescent sexual
intercourse and the consequences of unwanted adolescent
pregnancy.
(5) Course material and instruction shall include
information, consistent with federal Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) statistics, citing the
effectiveness and safety of all federal Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) approved methods in preventing or
reducing the likelihood of acquiring HIV and other STIs.
stress that sexually transmitted diseases are serious
possible hazards of sexual intercourse. Pupils shall be
provided with statistics based on the latest medical
information citing the failure and success rates of condoms
in preventing AIDS and other sexually transmitted
diseases.
(5.5) Course material and instruction shall provide
information, consistent with CDC statistics, citing the
effectiveness and safety of all FDA-approved contraceptive
methods in preventing unintended pregnancy, including, but
not limited to, emergency contraception.

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(6) Course material and instruction shall include
information and skills development relating to parenting,
including financial and emotional responsibilities,
communication skills, problem solving, and caretaking.
Course material and instruction shall also include
information on laws pertaining to medical care and medical
decisions throughout pregnancy and birth, surrendering
physical custody of a child pursuant to the Abandoned
Newborn Infant Protection Act, and the rights of pregnant
pupils to stay in their own school or enroll in a school
designed just for pregnant pupils. advise pupils of the
laws pertaining to their financial responsibility to
children born in and out of wedlock.
(7) Course material and instruction shall advise
pupils of the circumstances under which it is unlawful for
a person to have sexual relations with an individual who is
under the age of 17 and for a person who is in a position of
trust, authority, or supervision to have sexual relations
with an individual who is under the age of 18 pursuant to
Article 11 of the Criminal Code of 2012.
(8) Course material and instruction shall provide
pupils with the knowledge and skills for making and
implementing healthy decisions about sexuality, including
negotiation and refusal skills, to assist pupils in
overcoming peer pressure and using effective
decision-making skills to avoid high risk activities.

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Course material and instruction shall also teach pupils to
not make unwanted physical and verbal sexual advances and
how to say no to unwanted sexual advances and how to give,
receive, and understand consent. Pupils shall be taught
that it is wrong to take advantage of or to exploit another
person. The material and instruction shall also encourage
pupils youth to resist negative peer pressure. The material
and instruction shall include discussion on what may be
considered sexual harassment or sexual assault.
(9) (Blank).
(10) Course material and instruction shall teach
pupils about the effect of drugs and alcohol on responsible
decision-making and consent, including the dangers
associated with drug and alcohol consumption during
pregnancy and when engaging in sexual activity.
(11) Course material and instruction must include an
age-appropriate discussion on the meaning of consent that
includes discussion on recognizing all of the following:
(A) That consent is a freely given agreement to
sexual activity.
(B) That consent to one particular sexual activity
does not constitute consent to other types of sexual
activities.
(C) That a person's lack of verbal or physical
resistance or submission resulting from the use or
threat of force does not constitute consent.

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(D) That a person's manner of dress does not
constitute consent.
(E) That a person's consent to past sexual activity
does not constitute consent to future sexual activity.
(F) That a person's consent to engage in sexual
activity with one person does not constitute consent to
engage in sexual activity with another person.
(G) That a person can withdraw consent at any time.
(H) That a person cannot consent to sexual activity
if that person is unable to understand the nature of
the activity or give knowing consent due to certain
circumstances that include, but are not limited to, (i)
the person is incapacitated due to the use or influence
of alcohol or drugs, (ii) the person is asleep or
unconscious, (iii) the person is a minor, or (iv) the
person is incapacitated due to a mental disability.
(12) Course material and instruction shall include
information about State laws that apply to minor
confidentiality and minor consent, including exceptions.
If available, material and instructions shall include
local resources that include, but are not limited to, how
and where to access local resources; pupils' legal rights
to access local resources for sexual and reproductive
health care; parenting resources; substance abuse
treatment; mental health treatment; emergency medical
treatment for sexual assault; and resources for assistance

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with sexual assault, harassment, intimate partner
violence, stalking, sex trafficking and suicide
prevention. Local resources must be inclusive of gender
identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, and
sexual behavior.
(13) Course material and instruction shall encourage
pupils to communicate with their parents or guardians,
faith, health, and social service professionals, and other
trusted adults about sexuality and intimate relationships.
(14) Course material and instruction may not
deliberately withhold health-promoting or life-saving
information about sexuality-related topics, including
FDA-approved treatment and options.
(15) Course material and instruction may not be
medically inaccurate or include information that is
scientifically shown to be ineffective.
(16) Course material and instruction may not reflect or
promote bias against any person on the basis of the
person's race, ethnicity, language, cultural background,
religion, HIV status, gender, gender identity, gender
expression, sexual orientation, sexual behavior, or
ability.
(17) Course material and instruction may not be
insensitive and unresponsive to the needs of pupils based
on their status as pregnant or parenting, living with STIs,
including HIV, sexually active, asexual, or intersex or

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based on their gender, gender identity, gender expression,
sexual orientation, or ability.
(18) Course material and instruction may not be
insensitive and unresponsive to the needs of survivors of
sexual abuse or assault.
(19) Course material and instruction may not be
inconsistent with the ethical imperatives of medicine and
public health.
(20) Pupils may not be denied access to sexual health
instruction on the basis of any disability or perceived
disability or English Learner status.
(c-5) All classes that teach sexual health education in
grades 5 and below shall use course material and provide
instruction that is medically accurate, evidence-based or
evidence-informed, and culturally, developmentally,
linguistically, and age appropriate.
(d) An opportunity shall be afforded to individuals,
including parents or guardians, to review examine the scope and
sequence of instructional materials to be used in such class or
course electronically or in person.
(e) The State Board of Education shall make available
resource materials, including, at a minimum, a free sample
curriculum or a free set of instruction modules, with the
cooperation and input of experts that provide comprehensive,
culturally appropriate sexual health education and
organizations and entities that promote comprehensive,

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culturally appropriate sexual health education policy. the
agency that administers grant programs consistent with
criteria (1) and (1.5) of subsection (c) of this Section, for
educating children regarding sex education and may take into
consideration the curriculum on this subject developed by other
states, as well as any other curricular materials suggested by
education experts and other groups that work on sex education
issues. Materials may include, without limitation, model
sexual health sex education curriculums and sexual health
education programs. The State Board of Education shall make
these resource materials available on its Internet website, in
a clearly identified and easily accessible place. School
districts that do not currently provide sexual health sex
education are not required to teach sexual health sex
education. If a sexual health sex education class or course is
offered in any grade of grades 6 through 12, the school
district must teach the curriculum, adapted appropriately, to
all pupils in that grade, including pupils with disabilities
and non-English speaking pupils. Schools may choose and adapt
the culturally, developmentally, linguistically, and
age-appropriate, medically accurate, evidence-based or
evidence-informed, and, in the case of grades 6 through 12
comprehensive sexual health complete sex education curriculum
that meets the specific needs of its community.
(f) The State Board of Education shall, through existing
reporting mechanisms, direct each school district to identify

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any curricula used to provide comprehensive sexual health
education, whether the instruction was provided by a teacher in
the school, a consultant, or a community group; the number of
pupils receiving instruction; the number of pupils excused from
instruction; and the duration of instruction and shall report
the results of this inquiry to the General Assembly annually,
beginning one year after the effective date of this amendatory
Act of the 101st General Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 100-684, eff. 8-3-18; 101-579, eff. 1-1-20.)
(105 ILCS 5/27-9.2) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-9.2)
Sec. 27-9.2. Family Life. If any school district provides
courses of instruction designed to promote a wholesome and
comprehensive understanding of the emotional, psychological,
physiological, hygienic and social responsibility aspects of
family life, then such courses of instruction shall include the
teaching of all pregnancy options the alternatives to abortion,
appropriate to the various grade levels; and whenever such
courses of instruction are provided in any of grades 6 through
12, then such courses also shall include instruction on the
prevention, transmission, screening, and treatment spread of
HIV/AIDS AIDS. However, no pupil shall be required to take or
participate in any family life class or course on HIV/AIDS AIDS
instruction if the pupil's his parent or guardian submits
written objection thereto, and refusal to take or participate
in such course or program shall not be reason for suspension or

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expulsion of such pupil.
The State Superintendent of Education shall prepare and
make available to local school districts courses of instruction
designed to satisfy the requirements of this Section.
The State Superintendent of Education shall develop a
procedure for evaluating and measuring the effectiveness of the
family life courses of instruction in each local school
district, including the setting of reasonable and equitable
goals for improved sexual health outcomes, such as reduced
instances and disparities of sexually transmitted infections
(STI), including HIV, increased instances of STI, including
HIV, screening and treatment, especially in community areas
with high STI, including HIV, diagnoses rates, and decreased
instances and disparities of sexual assault and unintended
pregnancy. reduced sexual activity, sexually transmitted
diseases and premarital pregnancy. The goals shall be set by
the beginning of the 1991-92 school year. The State
Superintendent shall distribute a copy of the procedure to each
local school district. Each local school district may develop
additional procedures or methods for measuring the
effectiveness of the family life courses of instruction within
the district. Before the beginning of the 1993-94 school year,
the State Superintendent shall collect and evaluate all
relevant data to determine whether the goals are being
achieved.
(Source: P.A. 86-941.)

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Section 10. 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, culturally,
developmentally, linguistically, and age-appropriate,
medically accurate, and evidence-based or evidence-informed
information regarding including sexual abstinence until
marriage, contraception, vaccination, Pre-exposure Prophylaxis
(PREP) and Post-exposure Prophylaxis (PEP), and other medical
care for the prevention and control of unintended pregnancy and
sexually transmitted infections disease, including instruction
in grades 6 through 12 on the prevention, transmission, and
treatment of HIV 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,

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drug use, and abuse including the medical and legal
ramifications of alcohol, drug, and tobacco use, abuse during
pregnancy, evidence-based and medically accurate information
regarding sexual abstinence, tobacco, nutrition, 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. The program
shall also provide course material and instruction to advise
pupils of the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act. The
program shall include medically accurate 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 Red Cross, the
American Heart Association, or another nationally recognized

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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
teachers and other school personnel who coach school athletic

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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 HIV/AIDS 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 the pupil's his or her parent or
guardian submits written objection thereto, and refusal to take
or participate in the course or program or the training shall

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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.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.