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Senate approves school mental-health screening framework after extended debate on consent, data and standards
Summary
The Utah Senate passed the second-substitute House Bill 323 to establish standards and a voluntary pilot for school-based mental-health screening with written parental consent and protections against placing results in student records, after extended floor debate about what counts as 'evidence-based' screening and how HIPAA and FERPA apply.
Senators passed second-substitute House Bill 323 on a roll call after extended floor debate about how schools should screen students for mental-health conditions.
Senator Milner, the floor sponsor, said the bill ‘‘absolutely prohibits mental health screening without parental consent’’ and would direct the State Board of Education and the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health to select screening tools through a public procurement process. He said information from the screening would not be placed in student records and…
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