Parental consent before a school district administers a well-being questionnaire or health screening tool to a student

Before administering a well-being questionnaire or health screening tool to a student or a group of students, each school district must make the questionnaire or information on the health screening tool available to the parent or guardian and obtain the parent's or guardian's written or verbal consent to administer it to the student. A health screening tool is any diagnostic assessment that detects pre-clinical mental or physiological illness or diseases.

The subsection does not prohibit school district personnel from conducting audiology, vision, scoliosis or body mass index assessments required by federal law unless a parent withholds consent for that assessment in writing.

Each school district must adopt rules, policies, practices and procedures for a parent or guardian to file a complaint about the district's non-compliance with the section: the superintendent or a designee acknowledges the complaint in writing within seven business days, the superintendent decides it within thirty calendar days of that acknowledgment, an aggrieved parent or guardian may request a hearing before the board of trustees, and the board's final decision is subject to judicial review. Senate Enrolled Act 8 of 2024 created the section, effective July 1, 2024.