Parents' Bill of Rights

The concurrent resolution creates a parents' bill of rights and establishes certain rights for parents, including the right to:

• Direct the parent's child's education, upbringing, and moral or religious training;
• Enroll the parent's child in a public school, private school, or any other school choice option;
• Consent to medical or mental health-care treatment for the parent's child;
• Be promptly notified if an employee of the state suspects that a criminal offense has been committed against the parent's child;
• Consent or withhold consent to the parent's child's participation in reproductive health and safety education programs;
• Seek medical or religious exemptions from immunization requirements;
• Opt out of data collection and student information surveys;
• Review all available materials that the parent's child has borrowed from a school library or accessed in the classroom;
• Access the parent's child's education records or health records and be promptly notified of changes in the parent's child's education and health services or monitoring; and
• Be notified if the parent's child is experiencing gender incongruence.

The concurrent resolution prohibits a health-care provider, practitioner, or facility from providing, soliciting, or arranging for the treatment of a child without first obtaining written or documented consent from the child's parent.

(Note: This summary applies to this concurrent resolution as introduced.)