Instructions: In this task, you are given text for US Congressional and California state bills, your task is to generate a summary for this bill.
Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Let Parents Raise Their Kids Act of
2004''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

The Congress finds as follows:
(1) The United States Preventive Services Task Force
(USPSTF) issued findings and recommendation against screening
for suicide that corroborate those of the Canadian Preventive
Services Task Force. ''USPSTF found no evidence that screening
for suicide risk reduces suicide attempts or mortality. There
is limited evidence on the accuracy of screening tools to
identify suicide risk in the primary care setting, including
tools to identify those at high risk.''.
(2) The 1999 Surgeon General's report on mental health
admitted the serious conflicts in the medical literature
regarding the definitions of mental health and mental illness
when it said, ''In other words, what it means to be mentally
healthy is subject to many different interpretations that are
rooted in value judgments that may vary across cultures. The
challenge of defining mental health has stalled the development
of programs to foster mental health (Secker, 1998). . . .''.
(3) The Surgeon General's report also says, ''The diagnosis
of mental disorders is often believed to be more difficult than
diagnosis of somatic or general medical disorders since there
is no definitive laboratory test or abnormality in brain tissue
that can identify the illness.''.
(4) Accurate mental health diagnosis of children is
difficult as admitted by the Surgeon General's report that
says, ''The science is challenging because of the ongoing
process of development. The normally developing child hardly
stays the same long enough to make stable measurements. Adult
criteria for illness can be difficult to apply to children and
adolescents, when the signs and symptoms of mental disorders
are often also the characteristics of normal development.''.
(5) Authors of the bible of psychiatric diagnosis, the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, admit that the diagnostic
criteria for mental illness are vague, saying, ''DSM-IV
criteria remain a consensus without clear empirical data
supporting the number of items required for the diagnosis. . .
. Furthermore, the behavioral characteristics specified in DSM-
IV, despite efforts to standardize them, remain subjective. . .
.'' (American Psychiatric Association Committee on the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV 1994), pp. 1162-
1163).
(6) Because of the subjectivity of psychiatric diagnosis,
it is all too easy for a psychiatrist to label a person's
disagreement with the psychiatrist's political beliefs a mental
disorder.
(7) At least one federally-funded school violence
prevention program has suggested that a child who shares his or
her parent's traditional values may be likely to instigate
school violence.
(8) Despite many statements in the popular press and by
groups promoting the psychiatric labeling and medication of
children, that ADD/ADHD is due to a chemical imbalance in the
brain, the 1998 National Institutes of Health Consensus
Conference said, ''. . . further research is necessary to
firmly establish ADHD as a brain disorder. This is not unique
to ADHD, but applies as well to most psychiatric disorders,
including disabling diseases such as schizophrenia. . . .
Although an independent diagnostic test for ADHD does not
exist. . . . Finally, after years of clinical research and
experience with ADHD, our knowledge about the cause or causes
of ADHD remains speculative.''.
(9) There has been a precipitous increase in the
prescription rates of psychiatric drugs in children:
(A) A 300-percent increase in psychotropic drug use
in 2 to 4 year old children from 1991 to 1995 (Journal
of the American Medical Association, 2000).
(B) A 300-percent increase in psychotropic drug use
in children from 1987 to 1996 (Archives of Pediatric &
Adolescent Medicine, 2003).
(C) More money was spent on psychiatric drugs for
children than on antibiotics or asthma medication
(Medco Trends, 2004).
(10) A September 2004 Food and Drug Administration hearing
found that more than two-thirds of studies of antidepressants
given to depressed children showed that they were no more
effective than placebo, or sugar pills, and that only the
positive trials were published by the pharmaceutical industry.
The lack of effectiveness of antidepressants has been known by
the Food and Drug Administration since at least 2000 when,
according to the Food and Drug Administration Background
Comments on Pediatric Depression, Robert Temple of the Food and
Drug Administration Office of Drug Evaluation acknowledged the
''preponderance of negative studies of antidepressants in
pediatric populations''. The Surgeon General's report said of
stimulant medication like Ritalin, ''However, psychostimulants
do not appear to achieve long-term changes in outcomes such as
peer relationships, social or academic skills, or school
achievement.''.
(11) The Food and Drug Administration finally acknowledged
in September 2004, that the newer antidepressants are related
to suicidal thoughts and actions in children and that this data
was hidden for years. The Food and Drug Administration had over
2000 reports of completed suicides from 1987 to 1995 for the
drug Prozac alone, which by the agency's own calculations
represent but a fraction of the suicides. Prozac is the only
such drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use
in children.
(12) Other possible side effects of psychiatric medication
used in children include mania, violence, dependence, weight
gain, and insomnia from the newer antidepressants; cardiac
toxicity including lethal arrhythmias from the older
antidepressants; growth suppression, psychosis, and violence
from stimulants; and diabetes from the newer anti-psychotic
medications.
(13) Parents are already being coerced to put their
children on psychiatric medications and some children are dying
because of it. Universal or mandatory mental health screening
and the accompanying treatments recommended by the President's
New Freedom Commission on Mental Health will only increase that
problem. Across the country, Patricia Weathers, the Carroll
Family, the Johnston Family, and the Salazar Family were all
charged or threatened with child abuse charges for refusing or
taking their children off of psychiatric medications.
(14) The United States Supreme Court in Pierce versus
Society of Sisters (268 U.S. 510 (1925)) held that parents have
a right to direct the education and upbringing of their
children.
(15) Universal or mandatory mental health screening
violates the right of parents to direct and control the
upbringing of their children.
(16) Federal funds should never be used to support programs
that could lead to the increased over-medication of children,
the stigmatization of children and adults as mentally disturbed
based on their political or other beliefs, or the violation of
the liberty and privacy of Americans by subjecting them to
invasive ''mental health screening'' (the results of which are
placed in medical records which are available to government
officials and special interests without the patient's consent).

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION AGAINST FEDERAL FUNDING OF UNIVERSAL OR MANDATORY
MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING.

(a) Universal or Mandatory Mental Health Screening Program.--No
Federal funds may be used to establish or implement any universal or
mandatory mental health screening program.
(b) Refusal to Consent as Basis of a Charge of Child Abuse or
Education Neglect.--No Federal education funds may be paid to any local
educational agency or other instrument of government that uses the
refusal of a parent or legal guardian to provide express, written,
voluntary, informed consent to mental health screening for his or her
child as the basis of a charge of child abuse or education neglect
until the agency or instrument demonstrates that it is no longer using
such refusal as a basis of a child abuse or education neglect charge.
(c) Definition.--For purposes of this Act, the term ''universal or
mandatory mental health screening program''--
(1) means any mental health screening program in which a
set of individuals (other than members of the Armed Forces or
individuals serving a sentence resulting from conviction for a
criminal offense) is automatically screened without regard to
whether there was a prior indication of a need for mental
health treatment; and
(2) includes--
(A) any program of State incentive grants for
transformation to implement recommendations in the July
2003 report of the President's New Freedom Commission
on Mental Health; and
(B) any student mental health screening program
that allows mental health screening of individuals
under 18 years of age without the express, written,
voluntary, informed consent of the parent or legal
guardian of the individual involved.
Output:
Let Parents Raise Their Kids Act of 2004 - Prohibits Federal funds from being used to establish or implement any universal or mandatory mental health screening program.

Prohibits Federal education funds from being used to pay any local educational agency or other instrument of government that uses the refusal of a parent or legal guardian to provide consent to mental health screening as the basis of a charge of child abuse or education neglect until the agency or instrument demonstrates that it is no longer using such refusal as a basis of such charge.

Defines universal or mandatory mental health screening as any mental health screening program in which a set of individuals is automatically screened without regard to whether there was a prior indication of a need for mental health treatment, including: (1) any program of State incentive grants to implement recommendations in the July 2003 report of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health; and (2) any student mental health screening program that allows mental health screening of individuals under 18 years of age without the express, written, voluntary, informed consent of the parent or legal guardian of the individual involved.