Committee hears fix to parental-permission rule so routine school videos aren’t blocked
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Summary
House Bill 32 would narrow a parental-permission restriction in a 2023 parental-rights law so routine filming of school events (game film, band, theater) is not prohibited when parental consent for every student would be impractical.
Representative Amy Regier (House District 6) introduced House Bill 32 as a committee bill from the Law and Justice Interim Committee to correct an unintended consequence of 2023 legislation that restricted videoing students without parental permission.
Regier said the earlier law's language could effectively bar routine filming of athletics game film, band concerts and theater productions because it could require obtaining consent from every student's parent. "That would be extremely time consuming for school officials to try to track down every parent," she told the committee, and HB 32 corrects two lines in the statute to exempt those routine school activities.
No proponents or opponents testified in the provided transcript; Representative Regier asked for a do-pass recommendation. The bill was described as a unanimous Law and Justice committee recommendation.
The transcript shows a brief informational hearing and no committee vote recorded in the excerpt.