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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The House of Representatives understands the |
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| dangers that exposure to the manufacture of methamphetamine and |
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| the use of that substance by the parents of children pose to |
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| the physical and mental well-being of those children as well as |
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| to others who are in a supervisory position to those children; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, Public school personnel are mandated reporters |
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| under the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act; and
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| WHEREAS, The State Board of Education has power to |
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| supervise all the public schools in the State; and
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| WHEREAS, Illinois law recognizes that teachers stand in |
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| loco parentis to a child during his or her attendance at |
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| school; and
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| WHEREAS, The adoption of internal protocols by the State |
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| Board of Education for employees of public schools that will |
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| aid these employees in recognizing sites in which |
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| methamphetamine is being manufactured and in recognizing how to |
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| identify methamphetamine addicts and children of |
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| methamphetamine addicts may aid in their protection and in the |
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| protection of children exposed to methamphetamine or the use of |
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| methamphetamine by their parents and may assist in the removal |
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| of these children from that hazardous environment; therefore, |
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| be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| we urge the State Board of Education to adopt protocols for |
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| employees of public schools that will aid these employees in |
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| recognizing sites in which methamphetamine is being |
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| manufactured and in recognizing how to identify |