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Lively hearing on youth risk behavior survey amendment — agencies, clinicians and advocates warn against converting YRBS to opt-in
Summary
A broad coalition of public-health officials, clinicians, law enforcement, school and youth advocates urged the House Education Committee not to require affirmative parental consent for the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, warning that an opt-in rule would reduce participation and undermine surveillance data used for prevention, grants and school programming.
The House Education Committee held an extended hearing on an amendment to HB 446 that would change the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) from an opt-out to an opt-in model and would require affirmative parental consent before a student may take the survey.
Dozens of witnesses and committee members debated the amendment’s consequences for data quality, public health planning, school-based services and parental rights. Public-health officials, behavioral-health advocates, school boards, pediatricians and regional public health network representatives urged the committee not to convert the current opt-out model to opt-in.
Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education told the committee the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requires a representative sample for statewide results and that the CDC generally…
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