Parents Opt-in Protection Act

Bill: 118-hr-1094
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Miller, Mary E. [R-IL-15]
Introduced: 2023-02-17
Policy area: Education
Latest action: action_date: 2023-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-02-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Parents Opt-in Protection Act</b></p> <p>This bill revises the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA), which governs the administration to students of a survey, analysis, or evaluation that reveals information related to any of the eight protected areas (e.g., political affiliations, sex behavior or attitudes, and religious beliefs).</p> <p>Specifically, the bill requires prior written consent of the student (if the student is an adult or an emancipated minor) or parent (if the student is an unemancipated minor) for such a specific survey, analysis, or evaluation. Currently, PPRA does not specify that this consent must be written.</p> <p>Local educational agencies must update their student privacy policies to specify that students shall not be required to submit to a survey without prior written consent.</p>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1094 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 17, 2023 Mrs. Miller of Illinois introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To amend the General Education Provisions Act to ensure that a student is not required to submit to a survey, analysis, or evaluation that reveals personal information about such student or their family without prior written consent.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Parents Opt-in Protection Act . 2. Protection of pupils’ rights Section 445 of the General Education Provisions Act ( 20 U.S.C. 1232h ) is amended— (1) in subsection (b)— (A) by striking prior consent of the student and inserting prior written consent of the student ; and (B) by inserting before the period at the end the following: , for such specific survey, analysis, or evaluation ; and (2) in subsection (c)(2)(A)— (A) by striking and at the end of clause (i); (B) in clause (ii), by striking subparagraph (C). and inserting clause (i) or (iii) of subparagraph (C); and ; and (C) by adding at the end the following: (iii) not require a student to submit to a survey described in subparagraph (C)(ii) without the prior written consent of the student (if the student is an adult or emancipated minor), or in the case of an unemancipated minor, without the prior written consent of the parent, for such specific survey. .