Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Parents Opt-in Protection Act”.
Parents Opt-in Protection Act
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.
Sec. 2 Protection of pupils’ rights
Section 445 of the General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1232h) is amended—
in subsection (b)—
by striking “prior consent of the student” and inserting “prior written consent of the student”; and
by inserting before the period at the end the following: “, for such specific survey, analysis, or evaluation”; and
in subsection (c)(2)(A)—
by striking “and” at the end of clause (i);
in clause (ii), by striking “subparagraph (C).” and inserting “clause (i) or (iii) of subparagraph (C); and”; and
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.”