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    (105 ILCS 25/0.01) (from Ch. 122, par. 1820)
    Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act.
(Source: P.A. 86‑1324.)

    (105 ILCS 25/1) (from Ch. 122, par. 1821)
    Sec. 1. No membership or other dues or fees shall be paid by the governing body of any public elementary or public secondary school in this State to any association or other entity which has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools and students within this State if such association or other entity adopts or maintains in effect any bylaw, rule, regulation or policy which designates or requires a member to designate its school principal or any other school administrator as the representative of the member who alone is entitled to cast the vote of the member on any matter coming before such association or entity which is to be determined by a vote of its general membership; provided, that the provisions of this Section shall not apply if the bylaws, rules, regulations or policies of such association or entity, as adopted and applied: (i) authorize the governing board of each secondary school which is a member of the association or entity to appoint, as the allotted representative of such secondary school entitled to cast its vote on any matter coming before the association or entity which is to be determined by a vote of its general membership, any coach, athletic director, teacher, principal or other school administrator employed at the secondary school which the governing body chooses to appoint as such representative, and (ii) provide that if no representative of a member is so appointed by its governing body, that the school principal of the member shall be its representative authorized to cast its vote unless and until the governing body shall otherwise appoint.
(Source: P.A. 85‑656.)

    (105 ILCS 25/1.5)
    Sec. 1.5. Cancer screening. An association or other entity that has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating, or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools and students within this State shall include a question asking whether a student has a family history of cancer on any pre‑participation examination form given to students participating or seeking to participate in interscholastic athletics. The association or entity may require that a testicular examination be conducted as a part of any physical required for a male student's participation in interscholastic athletics.
(Source: P.A. 96‑128, eff. 1‑1‑10; 96‑1000, eff. 7‑2‑10.)

    (105 ILCS 25/2)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2011)
    Sec. 2. Prevention of use of performance‑enhancing substances in interscholastic athletics; random testing of interscholastic athletes.
    (a) In this Section, "association" means the Illinois High School Association.
    (b) The association shall prohibit a student from participating in an athletic competition sponsored or sanctioned by the association unless the following conditions are met:
        (1) the student agrees not to use any
    performance‑enhancing substances on the association's most current banned drug classes list, and, if the student is enrolled in high school, the student submits to random testing for the presence of these substances in the student's body, in accordance with the program established under subsection (d) of this Section; and
        (2) the association obtains from the student's
    parent a statement signed by the parent and acknowledging the following:
            (A) that the parent's child, if enrolled in high
        school, may be subject to random performance‑enhancing substance testing;
            (B) that State law prohibits possessing,
        dispensing, delivering, or administering a performance‑enhancing substance in a manner not allowed by State law;
            (C) that State law provides that bodybuilding,
        muscle enhancement, or the increase of muscle bulk or strength through the use of a performance‑enhancing substance by a person who is in good health is not a valid medical purpose;
            (D) that only a licensed practitioner with
        prescriptive authority may prescribe a performance‑enhancing substance for a person; and
            (E) that a violation of State law concerning
        performance‑enhancing substances is a criminal offense punishable by confinement in jail or imprisonment.
    (c) The association shall require that each athletic coach for an extracurricular athletic activity sponsored or sanctioned by the association at or above the 9th grade level complete an educational program on the prevention of abuse of performance‑enhancing substances developed by the association.
The association shall also require the person to complete an exam developed by the association showing a minimum proficiency of understanding in methods to prevent the abuse of performance‑enhancing substances by students.
    (d) The Department of Public Health shall provide oversight of the annual administration of a performance‑enhancing substance testing program by the association under which high school students participating in an athletic competition sponsored or sanctioned by the association are tested at multiple times throughout the athletic season for the presence of performance‑enhancing substances on the association's most current banned drug classes list in the students' bodies. The association may alter its current performance‑enhancing substance testing program to comply with this subsection (d). The testing program must do the following:
        (1) require the random testing of at least 1,000
    high school students in this State who participate in athletic competitions sponsored or sanctioned by the association;
        (2) provide for the selection of specific students
    described in subdivision (1) of this subsection (d) for testing through a process that randomly selects students from a single pool consisting of all students who participate in any activity for which the association sponsors or sanctions athletic competitions;
        (3) be administered at approximately 25% of the high
    schools in this State that participate in athletic competitions sponsored or sanctioned by the association;
        (4) provide for a process for confirming any initial
    positive test result through a subsequent test conducted as soon as practicable after the initial test, using a sample that was obtained at the same time as the sample used for the initial test;
        (5) require the testing to be performed only by a
    performance‑enhancing substance testing laboratory with current certification from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the World Anti‑Doping Agency, or another appropriate national or international‑certifying organization; the testing laboratory must be chosen following State procurement procedures;
        (6) require that a trained observer, of the
    appropriate sex, witness the student provide the test sample;
        (7) require that the student be chaperoned by a
    school‑designated official from the time he or she is notified of the test until he or she has completed delivering the test sample;
        (8) provide for a period of ineligibility from
    participation in an athletic competition sponsored or sanctioned by the association for any student with a confirmed positive test result or any student who refuses to submit to random testing;
        (9) provide for a school or team penalty on a
    case‑by‑case basis, to be determined by the contribution of a student with a confirmed positive test result to the team or the school's lack of enforcement of the rules of the testing program or both;
        (10) provide for a penalty for any coach who
    knowingly violates the rules of the testing program; and
        (11) require that coaches be responsible for
    providing a copy of the association's most current banned drug classes list to every high school student participating in an athletic competition sponsored or sanctioned by the association.
    The Department of Public Health may adopt rules for the
    administration of this Section.
    (e) Results of a performance‑enhancing substance test conducted under subsection (d) of this Section are confidential and, unless required by court order, may be disclosed only to the student and the student's parent and the activity directors, principal, and assistant principals of the school attended by the student.
    (f) The Performance‑enhancing Substance Testing Fund is created as a special fund in the State treasury. All money in the Fund shall be used, subject to appropriation, by the Department of Public Health to distribute as grants to pay the costs of the performance‑enhancing substance testing program established under subsection (d) of this Section. The General Assembly may appropriate additional funding for the testing program, to be distributed as grants through the Department of Public Health.
    (g) Subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of this Section does not apply to the use by a student of a performance‑enhancing substance that is dispensed, prescribed, delivered, or administered by a medical practitioner for a valid medical purpose and in the course of professional practice, and the student is not subject to a period of ineligibility under subdivision (8) of subsection (d) of this Section on the basis of that use as long as the student's coach has provided the student with a copy of the association's most current banned drug classes list, the student has consulted with his or her medical practitioner to confirm the valid use of the substance, and the student has notified his or her coach or a school administrator of a prescription for the use of the substance for valid medical purposes. Students that are prescribed such a substance, after receiving a copy of the association's most current banned drug classes list, are required to provide notice of that prescription at the time the prescription is issued. Any information concerning a student's use of a performance‑enhancing substance obtained by a coach or school administrator under this subsection (g) is confidential and may be disclosed only to those persons necessary to the determination of eligibility under this subsection (g).
    (h) Neither the association nor any of its directors or employees shall be liable and no cause of action may be brought against the association or any of its directors or employees for damages in connection with the performance of the association's responsibilities under this Section, unless an act or omission involved willful or wanton conduct.
    (i) This Section is repealed on July 1, 2011.
(Source: P.A. 96‑132, eff. 8‑7‑09; 96‑1000, eff. 7‑2‑10.)

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Illinois > Chapter105 > 1009

    (105 ILCS 25/0.01) (from Ch. 122, par. 1820)
    Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act.
(Source: P.A. 86‑1324.)

    (105 ILCS 25/1) (from Ch. 122, par. 1821)
    Sec. 1. No membership or other dues or fees shall be paid by the governing body of any public elementary or public secondary school in this State to any association or other entity which has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools and students within this State if such association or other entity adopts or maintains in effect any bylaw, rule, regulation or policy which designates or requires a member to designate its school principal or any other school administrator as the representative of the member who alone is entitled to cast the vote of the member on any matter coming before such association or entity which is to be determined by a vote of its general membership; provided, that the provisions of this Section shall not apply if the bylaws, rules, regulations or policies of such association or entity, as adopted and applied: (i) authorize the governing board of each secondary school which is a member of the association or entity to appoint, as the allotted representative of such secondary school entitled to cast its vote on any matter coming before the association or entity which is to be determined by a vote of its general membership, any coach, athletic director, teacher, principal or other school administrator employed at the secondary school which the governing body chooses to appoint as such representative, and (ii) provide that if no representative of a member is so appointed by its governing body, that the school principal of the member shall be its representative authorized to cast its vote unless and until the governing body shall otherwise appoint.
(Source: P.A. 85‑656.)

    (105 ILCS 25/1.5)
    Sec. 1.5. Cancer screening. An association or other entity that has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating, or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools and students within this State shall include a question asking whether a student has a family history of cancer on any pre‑participation examination form given to students participating or seeking to participate in interscholastic athletics. The association or entity may require that a testicular examination be conducted as a part of any physical required for a male student's participation in interscholastic athletics.
(Source: P.A. 96‑128, eff. 1‑1‑10; 96‑1000, eff. 7‑2‑10.)

    (105 ILCS 25/2)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2011)
    Sec. 2. Prevention of use of performance‑enhancing substances in interscholastic athletics; random testing of interscholastic athletes.
    (a) In this Section, "association" means the Illinois High School Association.
    (b) The association shall prohibit a student from participating in an athletic competition sponsored or sanctioned by the association unless the following conditions are met:
        (1) the student agrees not to use any
    performance‑enhancing substances on the association's most current banned drug classes list, and, if the student is enrolled in high school, the student submits to random testing for the presence of these substances in the student's body, in accordance with the program established under subsection (d) of this Section; and
        (2) the association obtains from the student's
    parent a statement signed by the parent and acknowledging the following:
            (A) that the parent's child, if enrolled in high
        school, may be subject to random performance‑enhancing substance testing;
            (B) that State law prohibits possessing,
        dispensing, delivering, or administering a performance‑enhancing substance in a manner not allowed by State law;
            (C) that State law provides that bodybuilding,
        muscle enhancement, or the increase of muscle bulk or strength through the use of a performance‑enhancing substance by a person who is in good health is not a valid medical purpose;
            (D) that only a licensed practitioner with
        prescriptive authority may prescribe a performance‑enhancing substance for a person; and
            (E) that a violation of State law concerning
        performance‑enhancing substances is a criminal offense punishable by confinement in jail or imprisonment.
    (c) The association shall require that each athletic coach for an extracurricular athletic activity sponsored or sanctioned by the association at or above the 9th grade level complete an educational program on the prevention of abuse of performance‑enhancing substances developed by the association.
The association shall also require the person to complete an exam developed by the association showing a minimum proficiency of understanding in methods to prevent the abuse of performance‑enhancing substances by students.
    (d) The Department of Public Health shall provide oversight of the annual administration of a performance‑enhancing substance testing program by the association under which high school students participating in an athletic competition sponsored or sanctioned by the association are tested at multiple times throughout the athletic season for the presence of performance‑enhancing substances on the association's most current banned drug classes list in the students' bodies. The association may alter its current performance‑enhancing substance testing program to comply with this subsection (d). The testing program must do the following:
        (1) require the random testing of at least 1,000
    high school students in this State who participate in athletic competitions sponsored or sanctioned by the association;
        (2) provide for the selection of specific students
    described in subdivision (1) of this subsection (d) for testing through a process that randomly selects students from a single pool consisting of all students who participate in any activity for which the association sponsors or sanctions athletic competitions;
        (3) be administered at approximately 25% of the high
    schools in this State that participate in athletic competitions sponsored or sanctioned by the association;
        (4) provide for a process for confirming any initial
    positive test result through a subsequent test conducted as soon as practicable after the initial test, using a sample that was obtained at the same time as the sample used for the initial test;
        (5) require the testing to be performed only by a
    performance‑enhancing substance testing laboratory with current certification from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the World Anti‑Doping Agency, or another appropriate national or international‑certifying organization; the testing laboratory must be chosen following State procurement procedures;
        (6) require that a trained observer, of the
    appropriate sex, witness the student provide the test sample;
        (7) require that the student be chaperoned by a
    school‑designated official from the time he or she is notified of the test until he or she has completed delivering the test sample;
        (8) provide for a period of ineligibility from
    participation in an athletic competition sponsored or sanctioned by the association for any student with a confirmed positive test result or any student who refuses to submit to random testing;
        (9) provide for a school or team penalty on a
    case‑by‑case basis, to be determined by the contribution of a student with a confirmed positive test result to the team or the school's lack of enforcement of the rules of the testing program or both;
        (10) provide for a penalty for any coach who
    knowingly violates the rules of the testing program; and
        (11) require that coaches be responsible for
    providing a copy of the association's most current banned drug classes list to every high school student participating in an athletic competition sponsored or sanctioned by the association.
    The Department of Public Health may adopt rules for the
    administration of this Section.
    (e) Results of a performance‑enhancing substance test conducted under subsection (d) of this Section are confidential and, unless required by court order, may be disclosed only to the student and the student's parent and the activity directors, principal, and assistant principals of the school attended by the student.
    (f) The Performance‑enhancing Substance Testing Fund is created as a special fund in the State treasury. All money in the Fund shall be used, subject to appropriation, by the Department of Public Health to distribute as grants to pay the costs of the performance‑enhancing substance testing program established under subsection (d) of this Section. The General Assembly may appropriate additional funding for the testing program, to be distributed as grants through the Department of Public Health.
    (g) Subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of this Section does not apply to the use by a student of a performance‑enhancing substance that is dispensed, prescribed, delivered, or administered by a medical practitioner for a valid medical purpose and in the course of professional practice, and the student is not subject to a period of ineligibility under subdivision (8) of subsection (d) of this Section on the basis of that use as long as the student's coach has provided the student with a copy of the association's most current banned drug classes list, the student has consulted with his or her medical practitioner to confirm the valid use of the substance, and the student has notified his or her coach or a school administrator of a prescription for the use of the substance for valid medical purposes. Students that are prescribed such a substance, after receiving a copy of the association's most current banned drug classes list, are required to provide notice of that prescription at the time the prescription is issued. Any information concerning a student's use of a performance‑enhancing substance obtained by a coach or school administrator under this subsection (g) is confidential and may be disclosed only to those persons necessary to the determination of eligibility under this subsection (g).
    (h) Neither the association nor any of its directors or employees shall be liable and no cause of action may be brought against the association or any of its directors or employees for damages in connection with the performance of the association's responsibilities under this Section, unless an act or omission involved willful or wanton conduct.
    (i) This Section is repealed on July 1, 2011.
(Source: P.A. 96‑132, eff. 8‑7‑09; 96‑1000, eff. 7‑2‑10.)

State Codes and Statutes

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Illinois > Chapter105 > 1009

    (105 ILCS 25/0.01) (from Ch. 122, par. 1820)
    Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act.
(Source: P.A. 86‑1324.)

    (105 ILCS 25/1) (from Ch. 122, par. 1821)
    Sec. 1. No membership or other dues or fees shall be paid by the governing body of any public elementary or public secondary school in this State to any association or other entity which has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools and students within this State if such association or other entity adopts or maintains in effect any bylaw, rule, regulation or policy which designates or requires a member to designate its school principal or any other school administrator as the representative of the member who alone is entitled to cast the vote of the member on any matter coming before such association or entity which is to be determined by a vote of its general membership; provided, that the provisions of this Section shall not apply if the bylaws, rules, regulations or policies of such association or entity, as adopted and applied: (i) authorize the governing board of each secondary school which is a member of the association or entity to appoint, as the allotted representative of such secondary school entitled to cast its vote on any matter coming before the association or entity which is to be determined by a vote of its general membership, any coach, athletic director, teacher, principal or other school administrator employed at the secondary school which the governing body chooses to appoint as such representative, and (ii) provide that if no representative of a member is so appointed by its governing body, that the school principal of the member shall be its representative authorized to cast its vote unless and until the governing body shall otherwise appoint.
(Source: P.A. 85‑656.)

    (105 ILCS 25/1.5)
    Sec. 1.5. Cancer screening. An association or other entity that has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating, or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools and students within this State shall include a question asking whether a student has a family history of cancer on any pre‑participation examination form given to students participating or seeking to participate in interscholastic athletics. The association or entity may require that a testicular examination be conducted as a part of any physical required for a male student's participation in interscholastic athletics.
(Source: P.A. 96‑128, eff. 1‑1‑10; 96‑1000, eff. 7‑2‑10.)

    (105 ILCS 25/2)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2011)
    Sec. 2. Prevention of use of performance‑enhancing substances in interscholastic athletics; random testing of interscholastic athletes.
    (a) In this Section, "association" means the Illinois High School Association.
    (b) The association shall prohibit a student from participating in an athletic competition sponsored or sanctioned by the association unless the following conditions are met:
        (1) the student agrees not to use any
    performance‑enhancing substances on the association's most current banned drug classes list, and, if the student is enrolled in high school, the student submits to random testing for the presence of these substances in the student's body, in accordance with the program established under subsection (d) of this Section; and
        (2) the association obtains from the student's
    parent a statement signed by the parent and acknowledging the following:
            (A) that the parent's child, if enrolled in high
        school, may be subject to random performance‑enhancing substance testing;
            (B) that State law prohibits possessing,
        dispensing, delivering, or administering a performance‑enhancing substance in a manner not allowed by State law;
            (C) that State law provides that bodybuilding,
        muscle enhancement, or the increase of muscle bulk or strength through the use of a performance‑enhancing substance by a person who is in good health is not a valid medical purpose;
            (D) that only a licensed practitioner with
        prescriptive authority may prescribe a performance‑enhancing substance for a person; and
            (E) that a violation of State law concerning
        performance‑enhancing substances is a criminal offense punishable by confinement in jail or imprisonment.
    (c) The association shall require that each athletic coach for an extracurricular athletic activity sponsored or sanctioned by the association at or above the 9th grade level complete an educational program on the prevention of abuse of performance‑enhancing substances developed by the association.
The association shall also require the person to complete an exam developed by the association showing a minimum proficiency of understanding in methods to prevent the abuse of performance‑enhancing substances by students.
    (d) The Department of Public Health shall provide oversight of the annual administration of a performance‑enhancing substance testing program by the association under which high school students participating in an athletic competition sponsored or sanctioned by the association are tested at multiple times throughout the athletic season for the presence of performance‑enhancing substances on the association's most current banned drug classes list in the students' bodies. The association may alter its current performance‑enhancing substance testing program to comply with this subsection (d). The testing program must do the following:
        (1) require the random testing of at least 1,000
    high school students in this State who participate in athletic competitions sponsored or sanctioned by the association;
        (2) provide for the selection of specific students
    described in subdivision (1) of this subsection (d) for testing through a process that randomly selects students from a single pool consisting of all students who participate in any activity for which the association sponsors or sanctions athletic competitions;
        (3) be administered at approximately 25% of the high
    schools in this State that participate in athletic competitions sponsored or sanctioned by the association;
        (4) provide for a process for confirming any initial
    positive test result through a subsequent test conducted as soon as practicable after the initial test, using a sample that was obtained at the same time as the sample used for the initial test;
        (5) require the testing to be performed only by a
    performance‑enhancing substance testing laboratory with current certification from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the World Anti‑Doping Agency, or another appropriate national or international‑certifying organization; the testing laboratory must be chosen following State procurement procedures;
        (6) require that a trained observer, of the
    appropriate sex, witness the student provide the test sample;
        (7) require that the student be chaperoned by a
    school‑designated official from the time he or she is notified of the test until he or she has completed delivering the test sample;
        (8) provide for a period of ineligibility from
    participation in an athletic competition sponsored or sanctioned by the association for any student with a confirmed positive test result or any student who refuses to submit to random testing;
        (9) provide for a school or team penalty on a
    case‑by‑case basis, to be determined by the contribution of a student with a confirmed positive test result to the team or the school's lack of enforcement of the rules of the testing program or both;
        (10) provide for a penalty for any coach who
    knowingly violates the rules of the testing program; and
        (11) require that coaches be responsible for
    providing a copy of the association's most current banned drug classes list to every high school student participating in an athletic competition sponsored or sanctioned by the association.
    The Department of Public Health may adopt rules for the
    administration of this Section.
    (e) Results of a performance‑enhancing substance test conducted under subsection (d) of this Section are confidential and, unless required by court order, may be disclosed only to the student and the student's parent and the activity directors, principal, and assistant principals of the school attended by the student.
    (f) The Performance‑enhancing Substance Testing Fund is created as a special fund in the State treasury. All money in the Fund shall be used, subject to appropriation, by the Department of Public Health to distribute as grants to pay the costs of the performance‑enhancing substance testing program established under subsection (d) of this Section. The General Assembly may appropriate additional funding for the testing program, to be distributed as grants through the Department of Public Health.
    (g) Subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of this Section does not apply to the use by a student of a performance‑enhancing substance that is dispensed, prescribed, delivered, or administered by a medical practitioner for a valid medical purpose and in the course of professional practice, and the student is not subject to a period of ineligibility under subdivision (8) of subsection (d) of this Section on the basis of that use as long as the student's coach has provided the student with a copy of the association's most current banned drug classes list, the student has consulted with his or her medical practitioner to confirm the valid use of the substance, and the student has notified his or her coach or a school administrator of a prescription for the use of the substance for valid medical purposes. Students that are prescribed such a substance, after receiving a copy of the association's most current banned drug classes list, are required to provide notice of that prescription at the time the prescription is issued. Any information concerning a student's use of a performance‑enhancing substance obtained by a coach or school administrator under this subsection (g) is confidential and may be disclosed only to those persons necessary to the determination of eligibility under this subsection (g).
    (h) Neither the association nor any of its directors or employees shall be liable and no cause of action may be brought against the association or any of its directors or employees for damages in connection with the performance of the association's responsibilities under this Section, unless an act or omission involved willful or wanton conduct.
    (i) This Section is repealed on July 1, 2011.
(Source: P.A. 96‑132, eff. 8‑7‑09; 96‑1000, eff. 7‑2‑10.)