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Committee approves bill requiring parental notice and written consent for most school-based mental-health services
Summary
House Bill 24-20, as amended, would bar initiation of school-based mental-health services for students without prior written parental notice and consent, with a suicide-risk exception; members debated a $5,000 civil penalty per violation and the potential chilling effect on student supports before the committee passed the bill.
The Committee on Education passed House Bill 24-20 as amended, a measure that would prohibit the initiation of school-based mental-health services for a student unless the school gives prior notice and receives written consent from the students parent or guardian. The bill includes an exception allowing suicide-risk assessments or screenings when there is a credible indication a student is at risk of suicide.
Representative Steele described a balloon amendment that clarified the bills scope to target ongoing interventions and to remove the…
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