SCHOOLS-HERNIA CHECK-CANCER

Provides that the Act may be referred to as the Brandon Ballard Law. Amends the School Code and the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Provides that a school board shall require that high school students participating in interscholastic athletics have a hernia check performed before being allowed to participate. Provides that a school board shall require that any pre-participation physical examination form a student must have completed before participating in interscholastic athletics include the question of whether the student's family has a medical history of cancer. Provides that the Comprehensive Health Education Program must include, in grades 9 through 12, instruction on testicular cancer. Effective July 1, 2009.