Bill Text: IL SB1711 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Creates the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act. Provides that the Act applies to public schools, school districts, and recognized nonpublic schools. Requires the Department of Public Health and the State Board of Education to develop and post on their publicly accessible Internet websites guidelines and other relevant materials to inform and educate students participating in or desiring to participate in an athletic activity, their parents, and their coaches about the nature and warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest. Sets forth provisions concerning a sudden cardiac arrest symptoms and warning signs information sheet, informational meetings regarding the symptoms and warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest, and a sudden cardiac arrest training course. Provides that (i) a student who exhibits signs or symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest while participating in an athletic activity must be removed by the team's head coach from participation at that time, (ii) if a student is known to have exhibited signs or symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest at any time prior to or following an athletic activity, the team's head coach shall prevent the student from participating in an athletic activity, and (iii) a student removed or prevented from participating in an athletic activity shall not return to participation until the student is evaluated and cleared for return to participation in writing by a physician licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches, certified nurse practitioner, or cardiologist; sets forth penalties. Contains provisions concerning other youth athletic activities, construction of the Act, and agency rules. Effective 60 days after becoming law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB1711 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB1711-Amended.html

Sen. Michael E. Hastings

Filed: 3/7/2013

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1711
2 AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1711 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section
522-80 as follows:
6 (105 ILCS 5/22-80 new)
7 Sec. 22-80. CPR training video.
8 (a) In this Section:
9 "Interscholastic athletics" means all athletic contests or
10competitions conducted between or among school entities.
11 "School entity" means a public school, school district, or
12nonpublic school recognized by the State Board of Education.
13 (b) A school entity shall require all physical education
14teachers and all coaches and referees of interscholastic
15athletics, student athletes, and athletic trainers to annually
16watch a training video, provided free of charge to the entity

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1and of no more than 15 minutes in length, on hands-only
2cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external
3defibrillators.
4 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
5becoming law.".
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